Supposedly, stress makes one gain weight. Supposedly, reducing calorie intake (don’t know by how much), could trigger one’s body’s “starvation-mode,” causing weight gain.
What was the joke that the bug screwed up?
miguel
I have heard something similar; that there is a stress hormone released in response to stress, which would include what we normally view as “stress” but also excessive working out (more than 2 hours) and maybe starvation as well. There is also some response by the thyroid to slow down metabolism in response to starvation/dieting, so eventually you’re gaining a pound when you eat a raisin or something.
The joke. Well. It’s one of those stories President A, it appears, tells every visitor. Empress Maria Theresia worked at a desk. In front of her a large mirror. On a shelf behind her there was this clock that she could only see in the mirror.
With me so far?
So President A walks his guest through the chambers showing guest this and that – a collection of knick-knacks, historic wallpaper, furniture. They come to a clock that is somehow different – it is backwards, like the reflection of a normal clock. And he tells the story about the Empress, and how she had this clock made so when she sat at the desk she could look in the mirror and see what time it was. And he gestures from the clock to the mirror, where several photographers were standing, among them The Bug, blocking the view.
“Could you guys move over a little?” President A says.
You had to be there. It was really funny, trust me.
I guess the Empress didn’t have the desk space to just set a normal clock right there on her desk. And didn’t have to learn how to read clocks backwards, because she was The Empress.
Also she had 16 children. If each of them had just one pet – a horse, say, this would give her a chaos coefficient (18 family members and 18 pets) of 1.0314424798490536e+28, whatever that means. A lot, anyway. No wonder she was so cranky and kicked the Protestants out of Austria during the counter-reformation.
The Bug looks like the “rolley pollies” me and my sisters would pack into our mud pies, mud cookies and cakes as spices or “chocolate chips” – depending on the mud dessert.
somesleep.
That’s almost as cute as the Bug himself.
Sigh…
The fate of the free world in the hands of The Bug? Better too, than in the Bush’s.
what’s a kilo?
Supposedly, stress makes one gain weight. Supposedly, reducing calorie intake (don’t know by how much), could trigger one’s body’s “starvation-mode,” causing weight gain.
What was the joke that the bug screwed up?
I have heard something similar; that there is a stress hormone released in response to stress, which would include what we normally view as “stress” but also excessive working out (more than 2 hours) and maybe starvation as well. There is also some response by the thyroid to slow down metabolism in response to starvation/dieting, so eventually you’re gaining a pound when you eat a raisin or something.
The joke. Well. It’s one of those stories President A, it appears, tells every visitor. Empress Maria Theresia worked at a desk. In front of her a large mirror. On a shelf behind her there was this clock that she could only see in the mirror.
With me so far?
So President A walks his guest through the chambers showing guest this and that – a collection of knick-knacks, historic wallpaper, furniture. They come to a clock that is somehow different – it is backwards, like the reflection of a normal clock. And he tells the story about the Empress, and how she had this clock made so when she sat at the desk she could look in the mirror and see what time it was. And he gestures from the clock to the mirror, where several photographers were standing, among them The Bug, blocking the view.
“Could you guys move over a little?” President A says.
You had to be there. It was really funny, trust me.
I guess the Empress didn’t have the desk space to just set a normal clock right there on her desk. And didn’t have to learn how to read clocks backwards, because she was The Empress.
Also she had 16 children. If each of them had just one pet – a horse, say, this would give her a chaos coefficient (18 family members and 18 pets) of 1.0314424798490536e+28, whatever that means. A lot, anyway. No wonder she was so cranky and kicked the Protestants out of Austria during the counter-reformation.
The Bug looks like the “rolley pollies” me and my sisters would pack into our mud pies, mud cookies and cakes as spices or “chocolate chips” – depending on the mud dessert.
what a horrible thing to do to a poor bug.
(you can shoot them pretty far too)