Marilyn's Photos - Sep 2 2025 - When does Autumn Start in Placebo land?

 

Somehow we generally agree that Autumn starts September 1st.  My theory is the school year where we live which always starts the day after Labour Day.  Do we think the same thing about Winter?  I switch over to the solstice start - it goes with Christmas somehow.   I think I get confused with Spring and have a double celebration - both March 1st and then the equinox.  And the start of summer?  It's the astronomical system and  the solstice.  Then as Fall approaches what happens? I think of "back to school' and it is Autumn on September 1st.  I am validated by the drop in temperatures. So my seasons follow a path of a self-fulling prophecy.  Maybe that seems like a relatively good thing, if you think of the placebo effect - where one's medical circumstances improve without receiving the real medication, but an inactive one, aptly named a sugar pill.  Sstudies show over and over that even when we're told it is a placebo pill, we improve. there is also the nocebo effect where a negative outcome occurs due to a belief that the intervention will cause harm - again with no active ingredient involved, it happens.  There are hundreds of articles on the placebo effect.  That must mean there are hundreds of jokes:   What idiot decided to call it “randomized clinical trial with placebo” And not “trick or treatment” I’m addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn’t matter. I went to see The Cure in concert last weekend. Halfway through the show, a cover band called Placebo took their place on stage. I enjoyed both performances equally. This joke includes placebos, and seems outstanding to me. Reasons the idiot couldn't kill himself. He couldn't find the tailpipe on his Tesla. He jumped in front of a model train. The bullets wouldn't fit in the squirt gun. He overdosed on placebo pills. He jumped off a low bridge. He stuck a plastic fork in an outlet. He doused himself in diesel and tried to light it. He leaped into an animal cage at the petting zoo. Jumping in front of this model train ...how would that work?

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