Carlene

Big Spanish olives are okay.....I used to drink the juice when I was a kid. But black, ripe olives are the bomb!

My grandmother made her own dill pickles, from pickles (cucumbers?) she grew in her own garden. They were wonderful. She put them up in big glass jars and you could see the spices in the brine, plus each jar contained several stalks of dill. I loved to fish those dill stalks out and suck on them.

My DH punctures the capsule and squirts the fish oil on his food. They make a "no fishy taste" gel cap. He says it is pretty much tasteless when mixed with soup, etc.

I'm not. Can you get rid of those damn smiley faces in the edit feature?

Thank you. Your patience threshold is unbelievable. My DH would, by now, have thrown in the towel and shut down the whole site....just to teach us a lesson. You are sooooooooo much calmer than the average man. Are you on some really good drugs, Alex?

Oprah's Weigh Loss Tips, Mini-Gastric Bypass, and New Weight Loss Camp....those are the ads when I click on this thread. I don't see the connection to the LB, but I at least like Oprah. The MGB guy, I don't like. He's the one who posted the very negative video on youtube.com about "failed" Lap Band procedures. I think anything to do with the MGB should be banned from LBT. Just my shiny dime's worth.

That's a good thing, right???? LOL

I'm getting a bit worried here, Mark. This is the second thing in like 36 hours that we've agreed on. Next thing you know, we'll be LB support buddies.

That makes three of us. You will never see my sheltered, easily offended little self in the American Idol thread.

Exactly.....the prayer in school people are, in reality, only supportive of prayers that mirror their beliefs. Once their kids started praying the Rosary, or the Shema, they would not be happy. Nor would I, if my child was "taught" their doctrine thru prayer.

It's good for both our wallets and our backsides if we can bicycle, walk, etc instead of driving, but the price of gasoline is still going to cost us extra, no matter what. Whenever gas goes up, so do prices. The manufacturer raises his price to cover the extra cost of shipping. It costs the retailer more to have his stock delivered, so he passes it on to you. So whether you own a vehicle or not, you will still pay for the increase in gas prices.

I joined LBT during the Dark Time. Threads were being locked; people were being banned. If that didn't make a newbie turn tail and run, nothing will.

Almost.....and worse, it's a true story. See my thread about Mr P.

Many of the babies aborted via the partial birth procedure are viable. I think that should be reason enough to outlaw PB abortions.

Or because he has designs on your caretaker and he's tired of waiting for your sick old ass to die! Sorry....I couldn't resist.

The owner of that "other site" has posted a request here that no comparisons be drawn between it and LBT.

What about the off topic posts in the General Lap Band Discussion forum (and other support forums)? Do those threads get to stay, just because they were posted to the wrong forum? Or would there be topic police to root them out and move them to their proper place?

OMG.....Mark and I are of the same mind. I knew if I stayed around here long enough it would come to this. LBT, you have corrupted me.

I've been hanging out here for quite some time and never even knew there was a "Top 5" until this discussion started. I agree...it's just not that obvious.

I must not be as easily offended as I thought.....the existing thread titles don't send me into spasms of righteous indignation. There are no four letter words....nothing that screams racial hatred, etc. The words "boy love" are not, in and of themselves, offensive to anyone. As for abortion, it's a legal procedure and discussed very openly on the six o'clock news. There are threads in the Lounge called "Sex Drive Poll", "For Those Who Pray", and "I Need Help To Help My Wife With Her Big Os". Shall we make the Lounge posts harder to access, as well?

That's kind of sad. Sometimes support comes from the most unexpected places. It seems a shame to miss out on it.

You are so right. There will be no shortage of advertisers due to the content in R&R. We might like to think that corporate America is deeply vested in good taste, but it just ain't so. On the other hand, I don't visit my other WLS boards nearly as often as I did before, simply because of all the off-topic threads on LBT. After two years, I'm ready to talk about something other than the Lap Band once in a while. And I like the diversity - everything from Jerry Falwell to boy-love to Mormon underwear to abortion to wedding planning. Where else can you get a smörgåsbord of topics like that?

Marry in haste....repent at leisure.

I tell everyone. It's easier, and I'm a terrible liar.

For the vast majority, an unfilled band is pretty much the same as no band.