To be fair, that study found that rats consuming 20 mg/kg of aspartame daily experienced carcinogenic effects. That's a pretty large dose - about a 12-pack a day for a 100-kg person.

Well, it's not vocally-isolated, but it IS live...

Wow. She's amazing. You're right, she isn't Whitney. But I could see, with some work, her *getting* there.

Whenever some young whippersnapper acts like he/she doesn't understand what the deal was about Whitney, I just haul out this video, from the '89 Grammys. 25 years on, it still blows my ass away.

I have rarely ever heard it used in a neutral manner to describe a person.

Meh...prior to HPS lighting becoming prevalent, most municipalities I'm aware of used mercury-vapor lights, which are much whiter in color. HPS lights didn't really become predominant until about 25 years ago.

Just a couple points of fact:

Missus Whiplash inadvertently used some Dr Bronner's peppermint on her ladybits a while back. The squawking from the shower was both pathetic and hilarious.

I suppose the idea of having their whole family imprisoned and/or murdered in retaliation probably stops most athletes who'd think of defecting.

It is well and truly agreed that women in a lot of Arab and/or Muslim societies get treated like crap, both legally and on a societal basis.

Dude. Are you seriously hauling out shit that happened 1,000 years ago as some sort of justification for...something??

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