There is a new film out based on a book about women who were forced to act as « tasters » of food to be served to Hitler, to determine whether the food was poisoned.
Is there evidence of other 20th century leaders with similar « tasters »?
For that matter, are there current leaders who employ such teams?
I suspect this has been asked before, but does the expression "breaking balls" as used in The Sopranos, i.e., purportedly making an insult which is actually intended only to be teasing (with part of the drama in the series being when it either goes too far or is not recognized by the victim as simply teasing) have any truth either in the Italian (or Italian-American) community as a whole or within "this thing of ours"?
I don't speak a word of Italian but I do speak French, and the French equivalent, "casser les couilles", or describing someone as a "casse-couilles" really does mean someone who is annoying, somewhat akin to being "a pain in the ass" in English (or, when used, say, as saying to someone "tu me casses les couilles" meaning "you're really getting on my nerves").
We know he was blackmailed into being an ally of Michael, then he betrayed him at the Senatorial hearings.
Knowing Michael’s penchant for having all his enemies killed, may we assume he is whacked?
Apologies, this is going to be one of those weird queries that come up here from time to time.
Diagnosed with PCa five years ago, had the RALP, yada yada. PSA has remained relatively steady at 0.02 to 0.04 since then (although I have to have it measured again in a week or so as part of an annual checkup with the urologist).
Last night I had blood in my stool and this has repeated twice this morning. I have had two colonoscopies in the past (last one 2023) that found nothing. Now I am of course concerned again and am trying to contact my gastroenterologist, who is of course unavailable over the weekend and according to his website apparently can't see me until July (!!!!) So I am doing what any well-educated, well-informed, calm, measured, person would do: panicking my guts out.
Has anyone heard of a PCa that somehow travelled to the colon?
It now takes up to three weeks or more for a letter posted from the UK to reach France. And even using an international courier service to send documents from France to the UK can take up to a week.
Does anyone know why this is so? Is this a result of Brexit?
It now takes up to three weeks or more for a letter posted from the UK to reach France. And even using an international courier service to send documents from France to the UK can take up to a week.
Does anyone know why this is so? Is this a result of Brexit?
Sorry, folks, you may have read my earlier rants but I am really at my wits' end here.
Background: I had a RALP five years ago now. I had the usual problems afterwards, urinary incontinence and ED. Incontinence is now controlled but not entirely absent. ED can only be overcome with the European equivalent of Caverject (I live in France and neither bimix nor trimix is available here), which produces a usable but very painful erection.
But...since the RALP I have no ability to orgasm and virtual loss of sexual sensitivity in my penis. Libido is not affected, I still have the desire to have sex with the usual stimuli, but no ability to reach anything near orgasm.
Urologist is stumped, sexual health doctors are stumped, nobody seems to know why this is happening or how to deal with it.
This is driving me bonkers: it is exactly like being a eunuch. The spirit is more than willing, the flesh is weak.
Has anyone else here dealt with this issue with any measure of success?
Thanks in advance.
Apologies in advance, I bet this question has now been asked a thousand times.
I have a Dell XPS 13 that is now five years old but chugs along quite well.
I recently had to have the battery replaced: it was overheating and had swelled.
The technician who did this for me expressed horror at my having McAfee on the laptop and said that it hogged my memory and reduced performance. He said that Windows Defender was just as good and used up less memory. So, with my approval, he disabled McAfee.
Was this a good decision? Am I at risk of anything?
I caught my wife in bed with my best friend!
She was caressing him and he was licking her!
I did what any red-blooded man would do.
I rolled up a newspaper, swatted him on the head with it and yelled:
"Bad dog! BAD dog!"
I seem to recall that at an earlier time, many Parisian cafés would have a basket of hard boiled eggs on the « zinc » as an alternative to croissants or tartines.
You could take one of the eggs and peel the shell and eat it right at the counter along with your coffee.
At some point this stopped being the case.
Does anyone remember when and why?
My dad was a prisoner there.
I've visited other camps (Mauthausen, Buchenwald, Dachau), but for obvious reasons this one hit closer to home.
Phew.
I mean, I have literally seen a Zabka on one street, then turned the corner and there is ANOTHER Zabka 100 meters away.
Don’t get me wrong, I love them, but how do they make money competing with each other?
Hi. I am currently in Poland and want to send a get well card to someone.
I have seen birthday cards, wedding anniversary cards, birth of baby cards, condolence cards... but no get well cards.
What should I be looking for?