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Not all low-fat or fat free milks have added sugar - the half gallons and gallons purchased at the grocery store may not. I was surprised to realize the milk at McDs had corn syrup added to it. I noticed the nutritional info print on the side of the carton one day and saw the calories seemed too high for 8 oz of milk and wondered why. Then I saw the same thing in the milk at the schools and then looked at the milk individual servings targeted at children available at the grocery store - and found many of them had added sugars! Then the craze over almond milk came in and found most of them have added sugar too. So now I carefully read the labels, especially since discovering the salt in many common foods (that we don't necessarily consider salty) are very high and pushes my blood pressure up.

I add Hershey's syrup to whole milk to make the chocolate milk my grand-nephew loves and it still has fewer carlories than the 2% chocolate milk served with happy meals or at his school.
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Dairy is strictly controlled here, I've never heard of adding sugar to plain white milk.
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My 33 and 26 year old still put Hershey’s syrup in their milk sometimes .
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I have a bottle of nesquik in my fridge right now LOL
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My dear little virus laden kiddies sent me home with a present - I got a sore throat over night and have been napping on and off all day (sigh) 🤒😷
I took a RAT just because I still have some and they will be expiring anyway but it come up negative, so as far as I know I've still not had that 🤷🏻‍♀️
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Virus laden. Lol
Oh never mind.. I figured it out
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Feel better cwillie. The grands give the best invisible gifts that show up after you leave.
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Dear FIL everytime you make a comment on a facebook post bragging about your excellent parenting skills I will be right there to remind you that you are a child abusing POS.
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CW, feel better soon!
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cwillie: Feel better.
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Good to see you back burnt.
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Welcome back Burnt2!
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Glad to see you back Burnt, by any name! Sorry you got locked out. Not the first time that's happened on AC.
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So you were banned, it wasn't a glitch?
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Burnt, I believe if you'd been "banned" you would have been notified by AC and you would be able to sign back in after the ban was lifted.

Did you contact Ashley to report that you couldn't log in?
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This banning policy is very off putting. We're not children needing disciplines handed out by parents.

I guess this will turn off and turn away members.
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There have always been people who are banned from the forum, that's nothing new, but the three strikes and you're out is. The problem from a user perspective has always been inconsistency, some people and threads have gotten pretty outrageous and nothing has been done. And people shouldn't have to be afraid of calling out an obvious t-r-oh-double-ell either (yeah, I don't want to chance to even writing the word)
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Hmmmm. Burnt seems to have gone dark again. I sent an email to Ashely asking what was going on.
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I think that the only thing to do if you think someone is a troll is not to respond to them.
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Yes, plus report their comments and hope for the best.
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Burnt is invisible to me. Can't see her posts you're replying to. Weird...
That happened a few weeks ago with Needs posts
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IMO there is at least one hanging around right now trying to set off dissension. Sometimes it takes a little while before their agenda becomes obvious. Then they disappear and return under a different user name and try it again. Some people don't have much of a life apparently but that's what trolls are all about.

burnt's posts have disappear for me too - no connection to the above comments,
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Well, if she was truly banned they aren't likely going to allow her back with a new account once they become aware of it. But I'm just guessing, it's hard to know why people are missing.
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"I think that the only thing to do if you think someone is a troll is not to respond to them."

I don't agree. I think it's good people point it out directly. It's for the benefit of other forum members, too. You don't need to waste your time reading the thread, because someone else kindly warned you this poster is not a serious poster. I don't think it's good that we need to worry about being banned, when pointing out directly that something's very off with a post. Off, as in, someone's fooling around, trying to waste people's time.
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That's where the problems have arisen hereiam, some people made it their mission to call out people as trolls when they were offended by them for any reason, some even began to search their history trying to prove they were right.... it was getting out of hand. In the end the offensive posts got a lot more views and comments than they would have if everyone had just ignored them.
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Cwillie, I understand it can go either way. I am of the opinion however, that it's beneficial to call out a poster (by "poster" I mean, someone who posts a question), when it feels like the right thing to do.

In fact, I would even say it's the right thing to do even if you risk being banned. You just saved some people from wasting their precious time. Even 2 minutes spent on a non-serious-post, is 2 minutes of very precious time wasted. I applaud the people who warned others, and who risked being banned. Well done.
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Oh FFS, I just saw that police in Australia tasered a frail 95 year old woman because she wouldn't put down a steak knife. I can't even imagine what those officers were thinking. 😭
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American law enforcement pulls these types of stunts too. It is heartbreaking that our leo are afraid of a frail senior. Shameful!
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Oh my - the taser story. AWFUL!

Why not evacuatate the area?
Surely the Police could out-run someone using a walker?

Or just wait until she needed a nap??

I've had to talk down or disarm many a dementia patient - fists, a butter knife here & there, a handbag or cane being swung around. But no experience being confronted with a sharp knife or other lethal weapon.

I imagine, the mildest tazer zap would be aimed at the wrist to drop the knife? As the very last resort.. But I wasn't there...

From news report;
"She's either one hell of an agile, fit, fast and intimidating 95-year-old woman, or there's a very poor lack of judgement [from] those police officers," PwD President Nicole Lee told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).
"She needed somebody to... handle her with compassion and time, not Tasers."

Agree. Very very sad.
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OK... I understand that a web search of bleeding years after hysterectomy may turn up the multiple posts on AgingCare, but if you follow any of those links you will be able to see that time and time again our advice has been to see your doctor. I truly don't get why anyone would go to the trouble of creating an account to ask yet again.
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