MOPAC. Not MOPAR. Ugh. stupid Chrysler.

p the boiler: bulldg4life: I'd like a good quick rainstorm to come through and get my car back to black for a few days.

However, the golf game has been loving the last few weeks. Back down to single digits already.

your handicap? I imagine it is hard to have a score of 9 on 18 holes

My other life is as a north Korean dictator

Been here all my life, and have always had very bad spring allergies. What I hate most is the brain-dead lethargy and the asthma attacks.

Fun Fact 1: Few people are actually allergic to pine pollen. What they are allergic to is the oak pollen, which comes out at the same time as the pine pollen. (citation: my allergist)

Fun Fact 2: Georgia's state tree is the live oak.

Fun Fact 3: I want to eradicate all live oaks in Georgia. This crap sucks.

How do you freaking tree huggers like it now?

mr lawson: wildcardjack: Pollen count in Dallas is 7906.

where are you getting the pollen count from?

EVERYTHING.




8k ain't nuthin.
When the cedar busts out around Austin in Dec.\Jan., we can get over 10K easy. We got off easy this year, since a good bit of the cedar trees were wasted by the drought.

Paris1127: The pollen count in Atlanta is so high that meth cooks are turning crystal meth back into Sudafed.

/try the waitress
//don't forget to tip your veal

Hi-Yo!

This is the virus they speak of in The Walking Dead.

At least it saves on food costs.

/Probably had the equivalent of 3 pollen snot shakes today.

MightyPez


I've been getting allergy injections since the end of last summer but never tested them under bad conditions.

Have any other farkers had them? What (if anything) did they do for you?

Did those years ago, I don't think they helped me that much. What did help was having sinus surgery to straighten out my deviated septum. Best surgery evar!! I could actually smell things afterwards.

/'septum, damn near killed'em' or something like that

It was over 8000 but at least it wasn't OVER 9000!

/sorry

Hack Patooey: elffster: brap: It's difficult to gambol and frolic while simultaneously retaining one's dignity.


Sez you, I frolic all the time and even prance and look...manly while doing it.


as long as no one sees me

Where does cavorting fit into all this, I must know for, er, a friend of mine.

Cavorting is right out...

*prances off

big pig peaches: Perducci: The only logical solution is to burn down the city.

It's been done.

Twice

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Atlanta_fire_of_1917

peachfish: That's like Austin all year, except oak instead of pine.

It appears pollen is not a particularly pressing issue in Austin right now.



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We just have moderate maple pollen, the only problem is that it's really the only tree I'm allergic to and one of the bastages is in my backyard and is the size of my house and it is blooming spectacularly.
/It's a short pollen season for them, so I live with being miserable one week.
//Also allergic to a few obscure pollens, but this is the only one that kicks my ass.

MBooda: Not as bad as it could be.
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/i'm not going back, jim

I'm guessing that's not the first, or last, time George Takei looked like that. Just sayin'

NTTAWWT

Expolaris: Welcome to my home town!

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/so glad i'm not living there right now...

Bucarke?

Yeah my car looked like it was hit by a pollen bomb this morning. I had to fill up so I figured I could wash it off at the gas station while pumping, but it was one of those pumps where you have to push down manually the other time. I would have wiped it off after, but it was getting pretty late.

/and now deep thoughts

The funny thing is my allegies went away completely when I moved to Atlanta from Minneapolis. Whatever was growing there that set me off must not be down here. Other than the lime green shiat on my car, it is perfect right now. Though as someone said earlier, we are gonna pay for it later. I think the bugs are gonna be terrible this year.

Crazy Talk Al: Been here all my life, and have always had very bad spring allergies. What I hate most is the brain-dead lethargy and the asthma attacks.

Fun Fact 1: Few people are actually allergic to pine pollen. What they are allergic to is the oak pollen, which comes out at the same time as the pine pollen. (citation: my allergist)

Fun Fact 2: Georgia's state tree is the live oak.

Fun Fact 3: I want to eradicate all live oaks in Georgia. This crap sucks.

I believe that. Generally, if you can see the pollen it's too heavy to fly around and become a problem for allergy sufferers. Goldenrod suffers from the same reputation; it flowers at the same time as ragweed, but since goldenrod has bright yellow flowers that get tall and ragweed is a shorter green/brown flowering plant everyone thinks the yellow flowers are causing their allergies because they are much more apparent (even though their pollen is too big to float).

Lando Lincoln: This exceedingly warm weather so early in the year is just not good. We are going to get hit hard with one or more things because of this. This is going to be a strange year.

Hope you like malaria.

MightyPez: I've been getting allergy injections since the end of last summer but never tested them under bad conditions.

Have any other farkers had them? What (if anything) did they do for you?

I did those for several years when I was younger. Pretty sure they helped quite a bit. Though, if you're on maintenance and the serum is clear, it won't do anything for you.

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Maud Dib: mr lawson: wildcardjack: Pollen count in Dallas is 7906.

8k ain't nuthin.
When the cedar busts out around Austin in Dec.\Jan., we can get over 10K easy. We got off easy this year, since a good bit of the cedar trees were wasted by the drought.

Texans...

I live in Georgia and I'm allergic to pine pollen. I think I'm developing an immunity to all the allergy medication.

Paris1127: The pollen count in Atlanta is so high that meth cooks are turning crystal meth back into Sudafed.

/try the waitress
//don't forget to tip your veal

if you are not a writer for the Jay Leno Show you missed your calling.

pollens

No. Never.

Lando Lincoln: This exceedingly warm weather so early in the year is just not good. We are going to get hit hard with one or more things because of this. This is going to be a strange year.


Meanwhile, in Arizona:

Lando Lincoln: This exceedingly warm weather so early in the year is just not good. We are going to get hit hard with one or more things because of this. This is going to be a strange year

Indeed. Forget about the weeds and eerily-early blooming and such -- here in B'more, the bugs are -already- starting to get out of control, and it's only March. I'd bet investing in bug zapper manufacturers and insecticide plants would be wise. I fear all hope may be lost in the battle against the tiny, bitey enemies.

And while I would love to cling to a hope of "mild winter, so maybe mild summer?" I really fear that it's going to be 140* in June. Ugh.

Headso: We burn wood for most of our heat

Isn't wood heat awesome? Yeah, there's more ass-pain involved compared to having the friendly man stop by and fill the basement with magic heat juice, but there's also a thrill to watching people's faces fall when you mention that you spent less than $10 on oil all winter (instead of $200-500+ per MONTH)... and then only because you wanted to make sure the furnace still worked.

Shoulda been the first thing I changed about the house, the *moment* I moved in, rather than waiting for the second winter.

/ sympathies for allergy sufferers... that must suck.... (but if you cut down any trees out of spite, I'll take the wood!)

fruitloop: POLLENOCALYPSE!!!!!!1!!

Curse you, villain! I was gonna say that.

*golf clap*

/Dear Atlanta,
//Gesundheit.

Odd Bird:
Texans...

Damn straight.

MightyPez: I've been getting allergy injections since the end of last summer but never tested them under bad conditions.

Have any other farkers had them? What (if anything) did they do for you?

I just started this year and so far no Allergy attacks.

MBooda: Not as bad as it could be.
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/i'm not going back, jim

Oh, my....

It probably wouldn't be as bad if we didn't have legions of lawn care workers blowing it back up into the air.

It's bad. and it's only the beginning. The 8k+ pollen count is more than the peak last year and this is early in the season with no rain in sight.

I sprayed my black car off last night and it is already green again.

Tsrwedge: MightyPez: I've been getting allergy injections since the end of last summer but never tested them under bad conditions.

Have any other farkers had them? What (if anything) did they do for you?

I did those for several years when I was younger. Pretty sure they helped quite a bit. Though, if you're on maintenance and the serum is clear, it won't do anything for you.

They give me 3 shots (dust, cats, and pollen) and they are all think and milky (one being yellow). The fact that my arms swell up tell me I'm getting the good stuff. I guess we'll see in the coming months

I should point out that Atlanta's previous record for pollen was set in 1999 at 6,100 (or thereabouts), so we blew that record out of the water. Unfortunately, no rain in the forecast for at least a few days.

Alas, my black car will be a nasty yellow color for a while.

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Thisbymaster: MightyPez: I've been getting allergy injections since the end of last summer but never tested them under bad conditions.

Have any other farkers had them? What (if anything) did they do for you?

I just started this year and so far no Allergy attacks.

I used to get allergy shots, and they were great for staving off my allergies. I miss 'em (no insurance=no shots).

TheGreatGazoo: The pine pollen isn't supposed to cause human misery because it is too big.

This is true. The stuff that gives you a headache is the stuff you can't see.

I live in Wisconsin, and our normal high is in the upper 30's this time of year. We've been LOVING the upper 70's we've been having. Even our extended forecast has us in the 60's for the foreseeable future.

Of course I get the strong feeling that we are going to pay hard for this in the coming weeks and months. Drought? Severe weather? Fire? All of it? 35 degrees above normal is nice in March, in July and August it would be deadly to allot of us white pasty Wisconsinites.

Oh, and they have needed to recalibrate that scale for a long time. I think the baseline pollen count around here is in the 200s.

I think I just had a sympathy asthma attack.

Rapmaster2000 too busy choking on pollen to comment?