I hate chastising

I actually witnessed my coworker inappropriately using a good chisel today while he was having a conversation with me and another coworker and our supervisor. He was nailing up a cabinet with built in shelf standards and was cleaning up glue squeeze-out. I noticed he was using one of our well-honed paring chisels, literally dragging it across the inlaid metal standards and once flippantly glancing off the concrete floor underneath.

Rather than shouting, "You're not paying attention to the tools you're using, you idiot!" like I wanted to, I went for the more subdued, "Hey, do you want one of our glue chisels?" at which point he looked down and sheepishly handed me what had originally been a nicely sharpened chisel. Fuck me, pay attention man.

Never mind that the conversation that was distracting him so much was centered around personal health decisions and how taking medicine is bad because it doesn't let the body build antibodies and we should all just gargle and snort salt water solutions (my supervisors said he actually gargles with salt-water everyday as a preventative which is stupid because you can actually dehydrate your throat and mucus membranes doing that making it easier to inflame or irritate them).

I decided that I had embarrassed one person enough already so I opted out of dispelling their homeopathic idiocy. But I should have said that most (if not all) OTC medicines don't actually attack what you're ailing from, instead offering you relief from the symptoms, making it easier for your body to do what it's supposed to do. Sort of like how your body needs rest to heal so, if you're up coughing all night long, it's a bad thing for your recovery. So, in reality, taking a decongestant or other symptom reliever when you have an illness probably isn't actually going to prolong your illness. Of course, it was totally lost on them that saltwater gargling is the same sort of symptomatic relief that you seek with an expectorant or decongestant or pain reliever or anti-inflammatory pill. The only way you could fuck yourself up really bad with medicine is to overdose on something, take antibiotics too often, or not finish a run of antibiotics.