You’re correct, it’s a barium solution. I’ve drank it myself, it’s moderately gross.

Good luck! I always wondered if driving was a factor as it was only on my right side and driving requires a surprising amount of iliopsoas activity.

Thank you! That is a terrible article title.

I’m sure all that CoD experience will pay off in spades.

The loser doesn’t even have that, he pays people to play his games for him.

I had mystery testicular pain for years. It was crippling and no doctor could figure it out. I saw literally dozens of doctors, had several MRIs and CT scans, and nothing turned up. Then I went to university and learned all about human anatomy and thus I learned most urologists are surprisingly ignorant of the topic. Certainly every one I saw was.

It was two issues: I have a connective tissue disorder which led me to strain my cremaster muscle through daily activities, and I had compression of the genitofemoral nerve due to tight iliopsoas from working a desk job. I’ve included my protocol if you want to give it a try. It cured me and has helped a few gents I’ve corresponded with online. I’ve been mostly pain free for over a decade now, with it only recurring when I get lazy and don’t adhere to my system.

Cremaster strain: wear an athletic supporter with a plastic cup whenever possible. It needs to be tight enough to immobilize your testicles. After the pain starts to abate, stop wearing it in bed for a week or two, then for gentle walks, increasing in duration as tolerated. Eventually cease wearing it altogether, but still keep it for recurrences.

Bonus balls exercise: the cremaster muscle is originally a part of the obliques. For some (but not all) men, bicycle crunches with a hard “crunch” of the obliques at the end will result in contraction of the same side’s cremaster muscle. You’ll know if this is the case as your testicle will rise, as if by magic. Obviously do this exercise after the pain has started to resolve. This is also one way to see if the muscle is your issue: it may hurt when or after it contracts, but this isn’t always true

Genitofemoral nerve compression: firmly (but not too firmly) stretch your iliopsoas twice a day for 30s each. No more, no less. The “blaster pose” in this video is what I do.

Additionally, strengthen the same muscles doing the exercises found in this video.

That’s it! I hope this helps. Feel free to ask questions, I’m an open book.

This is the way to do it. I run 1-2 years behind on most single player games. I save tons of money and they’re typically done with patches at that point.

That’s total bullshit. Fuck Nintendo.

If only you had some way to look it up, some sort of big network that could be used to share information. I’d call it the infowebs, but I suppose it will remain a fantasy…

Sure thing. It’s Tara Pellegrino from mypassporttoitaly.com . Good luck!

I think because the news doesn’t report on positive results, I suspect intentionally as those results are typically not positive for their owners.

Good luck! If your granddad was Italian and you need any help getting the required supporting documentation, I know a great genealogist.

It has 60 days to be approved by parliament and there’s a lot of squawking about it being unconstitutional by immigration attorneys. As gross as it is, the more nationalist fucks are also against it for fairly racist reasons. They can’t stand the idea of Muslims getting citizenship before anyone else 🤮

I’m hoping if it does pass, it’ll still leave a route to citizenship for Italian descendants. We were literally getting ready to file when this dropped.

That was just the laugh I needed, thanks for the tip!

Plus £295 for utilities. How the fuck does that shack cost £295 a month to operate? Fuck that.

¿La Chancla Sagrada de Jesús?

I’ll save you a click, here’s the summary from the author, edits and emphasis mine:

Hey everyone, I’m Viktor, and I’ve lived with ADHD my whole life. After dealing with all the ups and downs—distractibility, hyperfocus, and everything in between—I put my personal experiences into building a web app that’s all about helping others navigate making money off of people with ADHD for providing information one can find elsewhere for free.

I didn’t realize Rafe15 had started giving parenting advice.

Bingo. My approach to this is being really honest. Just tell her you’re interested and how you’re interested. See where the conversation goes from there.

The paper, for anyone interested:

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.9b00184

This totally made my day. Thank you!