Why does sugar stop hiccups anyway?

[conuly]

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Comments

[conuly]

JFC WTF?

[greghousesgf]

yeah, I was not too happy, especially since I don't believe in astrology at all.

[conuly]

Neither do I, but I'd be tempted - very strongly tempted, since there's no way in hell I'd take that job anyway, not with that red flag! - to respond with three pages on why modern astrology is false because the set-in-stone "signs" no longer correspond to the actual constellations the sun is in, and also any method that looks solely at birthdate without also checking the moon, rare celestial occurrence, the hour of birth, etc. is flawed on the very face of it.

I can get very pretentious if I try.

[greghousesgf]

James Randi has some great anti-astrology arguments.

[conuly]

Meh, I prefer the over-invested approach to this sort of thing.

[fred_mouse]

I'd be tempted to answer 'Ophiuchus' and see whether they have a clue what I'm talking about (I'd also possibly be lying -- I don't actually know what months it is supposed to have been added to, but I can certainly get into an argument about the way that astrology has and hasn't changed).

[conuly]

Ditto, ditto, so much ditto.