It is difficult to say that you are still allergic when your immune system stops the allergic response.

My kid lost his allergy to horses (red splotchy rash) after our pediatrician told us to keep taking him to the stables, only leave if he starts wheezing. Another couple trips, and he can now be around horses every day with zero issues.

Fear culture, to be blunt.

Peanut allergies are related to gluten allergies. If you are really allergic to gluten, it is called Celiac. And that allergy is a problem for celiacs.

But as the disease du jour, it seems like everyone and their sister is now dreadfully allergic to gluten, although when pressed, they'll just say "I'm gluten sensitive."

I know of no plants that don't have gluten, so they must be allergic to just about everything.... And vegetarians have long made a meat substitute from pure wheat gluten, it's called seitan. A good bit of protein of course, good texture, and can be very tasty when prepared right.

Not always - I was an addict long before hand sanitizers were popular. The wife tells me I'm one wash away from having a handwashing fetish.

When I was a kid, a neighbor kid got something called "trench mouth". My mom told me if I didn't wash my hands, I'd get trench mouth too. Ever since then, my hands have been really clean. And hand sanitizers are used until I can get to soap and water. I even used Phisohex hexachlorophene before they banned it.

FWIW, I get a cold about once every 4 years.

No - really - I didn't!

Are idiots sometimes. What was their plan, eliminate every possible allergen as humanity ends up in sterile bubbles?

As an example of the proper way to handle allergens, our son came back from the stable where we kept our horses, all splotchy the first time we took him there. Wife took him to our pediatrician. He told us - "Keep taking him there, and unless he starts wheezing, his immune system will adapt and the rash will go away. Only took two visits, and the allergy was gone.

The concept that if we avoid all exposure it will be great ends up in a world without legumes. Yeah, there are some people with allergies severe enough to need medical intervention, but these so called experts were creating allergies, not preventing or fixing them.

They probably got most of their lead exposure from using lead acetate as a sweetener in wine.

Amazing you thought it was clever to drop to sissy status to write that, Bud.

I do know that as a person who got dragged into computer support, mainly because I used and worked with MacOS, and our support army was all Windows centric, your comment about costing more time got a chuckle. Our Linux people used no support, We had a hundred or so Macs, and if I had one support call a week, it was a busy week.

On the Windows end, however, we had more computers, of course - several hundred. We had a departmental group of around 25 people with a group leader and a supervisor, and a department head to keep them running. And I even got sucked into Windows support, especially for the C-Suite. And my burn rate was significant.

You aren't wrong. When I first tried Linux, it was still on mini floppies. It was a fuss, and not worth the effort. After Unix based MacOS came out, and I had to use Terminal daily, Linux clicked. Especially after my Linux mentor noted "Think of MacOS as the slickest, shiniest version of Linux". Because in the meantime, Linux had been improving. Suddenly everything fit. So now, my main emphasis is on usability, security, and the software I need. So I have that Windows laptop for the one Windows only program, my Mac for most things, and some Linux machines that I have fun with.

Irony possibly, but the Windows laptop is still most of the problems.

Remember if they don't have time for Linux shit, they don't have time for Windows shit either. Change my mind.

Just return to hunter gatherer days, and end all civilization. Like it or not, if it can be done, it will be done.

The people who have the woeful tales of "Linux is too hard!" must never have used Mint. If Mint is too hard, all computing is too hard. Have them get a smartphone, then when they have problems they can go to the store they bought it at.

You tell them to go to AT&T, or Verizon. and get a SmartPhone. Eternal September lives on, and if they are too stupid to use Linux, they will have the same problems or worse with Windows.

Can you show us on the doll where Linux hurt you? That's the first step in getting rid of your anger problems.

Probably never - it's just a popular thing for the Windows uber alles crowd to chant.

2005 called. Look - It's all fun and games to make claims about Linux that were true20 years ago. I use Windows MacOS and Linux. Windows gives me 90 percent of computing problems. While using it the least. So these clueless people have no problems on The bestest, most popular, largest installed user base OS?