Small Talk: Ughngnggh! Ugghhnnn!

[Mr. Sparkle]

Since I grew up with a lot of Italian kids, there were plenty of Anthonys, Vincents, Lisas and Maries. Also Toni Ann, which is a name I rarely encounter out of my home town. 

[nachomama]

1 hour ago, Superclam said:

Since I grew up with a lot of Italian kids, there were plenty of Anthonys, Vincents, Lisas and Maries. Also Toni Ann, which is a name I rarely encounter out of my home town. 

Anthonette was one that always got me, I think it's kinda local. They wanted to make Anthony feminine but instead of the already existing Antoinette. At first I thought it was just my one friend Jessicas cousin but then there was a girl who was kidnapped from Gallup New Mexico in 1986 named Anthonette Cayedito which is still unsolved.

All Jessica's I've ever known were annoying , apologies to any jessica's among you, I'm sure you are not annoying.

[nachomama]

Internet’s hate me 

Edited August 16, 2021 by nachomama

[Smad]

Is anyone aware of this project? I didn't know where else to put it (it's not TWD related) but it's about our fave little monsters, the undead. Now I would love for this to become a series (even if it's limited). Because this is how you do it. And this was done by one guy during the pandemic. Networks really have no excuse whatsoever for the garbage they put out.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12661206/

[nachomama]

Tell me you grew up poor without telling me you grew up poor. I just had a random memory of my dad telling us we didn't eat our chicken right. He would be like "oh you left a lot on this bone" and he'd go nibble at our chicken legs.

[madmax]

1 hour ago, nachomama said:

Tell me you grew up poor without telling me you grew up poor. 

"Grilled cheese, AGAIN?  Isn't that block of government cheese used up yet?"

[Mr. Sparkle]

2 hours ago, nachomama said:

Tell me you grew up poor without telling me you grew up poor. I just had a random memory of my dad telling us we didn't eat our chicken right. He would be like "oh you left a lot on this bone" and he'd go nibble at our chicken legs.

My mother used to do that, and we were decidedly middle-class. I think she just liked chicken. 

[nachomama]

1 hour ago, Superclam said:

My mother used to do that, and we were decidedly middle-class. I think she just liked chicken. 

Not having children, the notion of nibbling my kids food is gross. My mother ate so many leftovers, which again she might have liked but pretty much anything we didn't eat. You remember the jelly candies that came in a box of chocolate valentines hearts, way back in the day? You'd have the nut clusters, maybe something coconut and thered be an orange or a raspberry "jelly". They were gross and eventually they disappeared and we have "creams" now. We would take a bite or even eat all the chocolate off the outside and leave the icky jelly center and my mom would eat  those. Can you imagine you never get any chocolate of your own and just have to eat the disgusting crumbs of your kids? She ate all the crusts of my bread and she liked fruit cake, only person in the world I ever met who actually lked fruit cake.

[Mr. Sparkle]

I have kids, and you'd be shocked at the things you eat or just touch. 

[Nashville]

8 hours ago, nachomama said:

Tell me you grew up poor without telling me you grew up poor. I just had a random memory of my dad telling us we didn't eat our chicken right. He would be like "oh you left a lot on this bone" and he'd go nibble at our chicken legs.

No one can fry squirrel like my mom.

[nachomama]

My aunt who just passed away used to tell a story about all the kids having to sleep in the same bed. She says my dad wet the bed and then rolled her over into the wet spot. They had 6 total but probly only 4 sleeping in the bed at the time. 

[nachomama]

I was thinking Romper Room CUZ NO ONE EVER SAID MY NAME. I never had a dawgone pencil with my stupid name on it. Never had a license plate for my bike with my name on it. I have easily one of the most common names on the planet, however, not for girls. My sister, same. We used to ask "why you give us boy names? you wanted boys?" My mom says "Oh no, you woulda been michael" My sister probably would have been the same if she were a boy, she was named after both grandfathers.

[Nashville]

34 minutes ago, nachomama said:

I was thinking Romper Room CUZ NO ONE EVER SAID MY NAME. I never had a dawgone pencil with my stupid name on it. Never had a license plate for my bike with my name on it.

Same.  
My sister’s name?  No problem.  

My name?  Not a chance in hell.

(It’s a “family” name)

[Mr. Sparkle]

My name got said once. I remember, I was excited. 

Sorry, I have one of those license plate names. I have a friend named Liza, and we looked all throughout Disney World and Universal for anything with her name on it. Nothing. 

[Nashville]

3 minutes ago, Superclam said:

Sorry, I have one of those license plate names. I have a friend named Liza, and we looked all throughout Disney World and Universal for anything with her name on it. Nothing. 

I’ll put it this way: at the tourist trap souvenir shops I’ve had more luck finding my last name than my first.

[Mr. Sparkle]

Rutherford Tyler? Did I guess right? 

[nachomama]

My name could be short for a number of things, it just isnt. I will always let them assume it is. I don't tell my birthday or the derivation of my name cuz they're just gonna forget it anyway. I get the better end of the stick I think, compared to my sister. Hers just sucks. :P Her most current obsession is that her nickname as a child was toot toot. She claims she liked trains...people...aint nobody called her that beyond the age of 2 but she literally wants to be called that now. I remember once as a very young child she told some across the street neighbors that and they immediately began calling her "bean burrito" for the "toots" and I laughed my ass off.

Your name is Wilburforce! Heisenrude? Gilgamesh? Rheinhold!

I never answer to my name in public, it's never anyone calling for me. I never put my name down for reservations, I don't go to starbucks so I never give my name for drinks, the call center job I use my middle name. If I were going to give a name for a coffee drink I would make up something outrageous to see what they come up with.

Edited August 19, 2021 by nachomama

[Mr. Sparkle]

54 minutes ago, nachomama said:

Gilgamesh?

That is epic! 

[Nashville]

4 hours ago, Superclam said:

Rutherford Tyler? Did I guess right? 

Not even close.  😂

 

4 hours ago, nachomama said:

Your name is Wilburforce! Heisenrude? Gilgamesh? Rheinhold!

Gilgamesh?  I wish.

[madmax]

I was the youngest of six and a "surprise" baby (surprise to my dad, not my mom).  Because all the family names had been used, my dad (who was in charge of naming the girls) told my oldest brother he could name me.  I almost ended up Petruska, because of a book my brother was reading.  Luckily, that was vetoed right quick.

**

I'm guessing Agamemnon Brady!

[Nashville]

41 minutes ago, madmax said:

I'm guessing Agamemnon Brady!

So close…!!!  
Nah, not really.  😆

[nachomama]

On 8/19/2021 at 8:16 PM, madmax said:

I was the youngest of six and a "surprise" baby (surprise to my dad, not my mom).  Because all the family names had been used, my dad (who was in charge of naming the girls) told my oldest brother he could name me.  I almost ended up Petruska, because of a book my brother was reading.  Luckily, that was vetoed right quick.

Wait, wait wait...why was your dad in charge of naming the girls? I know your mom did all the hard work, with both flavors....but we know we can't trust the men with these things.

I have a friend who likes to tell us she was almost named Raverjanatha <-- that's kinda by ear because if it's a literary reference I do not know it and I'm too stupid to ask but she acts like it's a big deal or something we all know about. No clue how you would actually spell it. I know as a small child I would never have gotten Sigourney Weavery correct, in my head it was See-journey and most famously when I read Ramona the pest books, her sister is named Beatrice and one of the books is called Beezus and Ramona so that's even a clue but in my head I'm thinking "what kind of horrible name is "Beet-Rice" like the vegetable and the rice. DUH I was like how dumb is this kid that they can't say their sisters name but that doesn't even rhyme. Hahahah I was kinda stoopit.

My niece couldn't say my name as a child and concocted a nickname for it. She is allowed to say it. My sister adopted it and she is NOT allowed to say it. To the point of if I had a shovel in my hand and she called me by that name I'd smash her in the face with the shovel as a reflex.

[Mr. Sparkle]

On 8/19/2021 at 8:58 PM, Nashville said:

So close…!!!  
Nah, not really.  😆

Sawyer Thomas? 

[nachomama]

Caught? Very much controversy on this one. I followed my friend Marcy into Mr. Ogle's class at lunchtime, literally just tagging along, didn't even know anyone in there. Apparently they were all on detention. Mr. Ogle popped in, many people were in there but only 3 of us were unable to dash out the back door. Mr. Ogle issued us a stern "SIT DOWN AND DON'T YOU MOVE" and we did. The bell rang, our teacher from across the hall came to get us, so of course, we went with her. Mr. Ogle pops into our class and now he's pissed we disobeyed. They have some words but then we are sent back to his class. Me, Marcy and Orlando. First he goes on and on about the bad kids in his own class who were already on punishment and here we come. Now Marcy is not worried at all, her mom works at the school and she calls the principal "grandpa", my father? my father is going to tear me up when I get home. So I'm low key tears streaming down my face already. Orlando is sitting with his face propped up on his hands and Mr. Ogle shouts "wipe that smirk off your face". Orlando wasn't smirking and didn't know what smirking meant so he continued to keep his face in his hand. Mr. Ogle orders him to come to the front and I kid you not PICKS HIM UP BY HIS HAIRAND SHAKES HIM LIKE A RAG DOLL.  Whatever was happening with my face prior, it was now full on streaming. I'm bawling my ass off very, very quietly. Cuz I'm gonna get dangled by my hair and then my father gonna whoop me til I can't sit til next Tuesday. Now our teacher came back with the principal and we were escorted back to our class. I personally, never heard another word. My parents were never informed. From what I gathered from Marcy, Mr. Ogle got in trouble because of the hair dangling. Marcy's mom, had anything happened to her child, was never going to let it go. He almost lost his job.

I had another unfortunate incident with him, when my granpa died they sent me down the street to stay with the neighbor kid while they went to the funeral. They fed me strawberry shortcake cereal for breakfast and it wsn't sitting well with me. So when MR. Ogle went to pick on me for something, I muttered "shut up" and he said, "excuse me?" and I said "uhhhhh be quiet?" and he sent me across the hall to my room. I tried to go to the nurse but we had a substitute and she didn't want to do paperwork. So she told me put my head down and rest. I lifted my head and barfed all over my desk. To this day Marcy teases me about both! She's all "remember that time you puked pink lava?" and I was a cry baby for the other one. But because of the barfing and my dead grandpa Mr. Ogle did not make me write him a formal apology.

[Mr. Sparkle]

1 hour ago, icemiser69 said:

There was a time in middle school where I put a thumbtack on a girl's chair and some how when she sat on it, it got lodged between her butt cheeks and she never felt a thing.  There she was walking down the hall with a silver thumbtack stuck between her cheeks.

Exactly how big was this ass? Asking for me. 

[Mr. Sparkle]

6 minutes ago, icemiser69 said:

Back then, your average sized girl, by today's standards wafer thin. 

I was watching an old Emergency episode, and just looking at how skinny those guys were,  I was surprised they had any upper body strength at all.  They were skinny and didn't look the least bit muscular.

Mild celebrity sighting: I once saw Randolph Mantooth in a bar in Manhattan.

That's the whole story. 

[Mr. Sparkle]

@nachomama I had a feeling you would probably win this one. 

In the 70s and 80s teachers were much more likely to pull hair or push kids, just short of punching. They'd be arrested and fired today. 

[Nashville]

Let’s see now… there’s what I did, and what I got caught at - and between the two, the latter is a far shorter list; minuscule, as a matter of fact.  I was one of the top students grade-wise, so I never even got suspected for the good stuff - like… who wired the lunchroom jukebox into the school PA, then put “Cheeseburger In Paradise” on to play about 30 times in a row…?  Geez, I can’t imagine who….

The only time I got licks in school*, though?  On account of golf balls.  Sophomore PE class.  Every 6 weeks was a different sports/activity focus.  Some 6-week focus sections (baseball, volleyball, etc.) were gender-segregated - male coaches teaching male students, likewise for females - some were not; the split classes (the norm) had about 25 students each, so the combined classes were one coach dealing with about 50 kids.

One of the combined six weeks was golf, or an unreasonable approximation thereof - by which I mean, golf class was a fucking joke.  It consisted of:

1. Each student would grab one golf iron out of a motley collection they’d accumulated over the years, and three golf balls.
2. Everybody would then march out to the football practice field, line up on one side, and wait.  
3. Eventually everybody would be lined up to the coach’s satisfaction, the coach would shout “GO!”, and everybody would hit their three balls toward the other sideline.
4. You then wait until everybody else has finished hitting their three balls…
5. …at which point coach shouts “GO!” again, and everybody runs like a maniac to (a) re-collect their three balls, then (b) run over to the opposite side, and line up THERE.
6. Lather/rinse/repeat steps 3-5, until the end of gym period.  Watch out Arnold fucking Palmer, here we come.

Two things about this exercise in futility: (1) it was absolutely verboten to do the Step 5 dash across the field until EVERYBODY was done hitting their balls and the coach shouted “GO!” - presumably the school was concerned about liability for someone taking off prematurely and getting clocked by a golf ball - and (2) some kids took a LOT damn longer than others to hit three damn golf balls.  

(Also worth mentioning at this point: the golf coach was an -ahem- rather stalwart female coach who made no bones about the fact she really disliked having to deal with the male students; IIRC her daily communication on the subject was “You fucking boys give me ANY fucking shit today, and I’ll cave your fucking skulls in with a fucking nine iron” - and yeah, to the best of my recollection that is a direct fucking quote.)

Anyways, each iteration was the same: 95% of the class would hit their three balls within about 2-3 minutes of the first “GO!”, then EVERYBODY had to wait around on the 3 or 4 absolute fucking morons who apparently required about 12-15 minutes to do the same.  After about 3 or 4 repetitions back and forth across the field of this same pattern - hit your balls, wait ten minutes for the idiots to finish, dash - pretty much everybody (including me) is getting fed up with (and grousing about) the laggards, and just waiting for the “GO!”.

So we finally hear the next “GO!”, we take off to get out balls…

…then turn around confused because most everybody else is still standing back at the line.  SOMEONE had shouted “GO!”, but guess what?  It wasn’t Coach Turner - and she promptly sat our asses on the grass for the rest of PE class, then marched us up to the principal’s office for licks.  Only time I ever got licks in school, that.

Oh, and one final Fun Fact: a few years later, that same coach got arrested and convicted for armed robbery.  She held up several banks in the area.

* Keep in mind, my high school days were back in the ‘70s.

Edited August 23, 2021 by Nashville
Four banks, not one.

[nachomama]

2 hours ago, Superclam said:

Mild celebrity sighting: I once saw Randolph Mantooth 

I have no idea why but I loved the shit outs Randolph man tooth 

[Mr. Sparkle]

1 minute ago, nachomama said:

I have no idea why but I loved the shit outs Randolph man tooth 

He was a handsome fellow. 

[nachomama]

26 minutes ago, Superclam said:

He was a handsome fellow. 

Back off ! That’s my mantooth. 

[Mr. Sparkle]

5 minutes ago, nachomama said:

Back off ! That’s my mantooth. 

I saw him first! 

[Nashville]

33 minutes ago, nachomama said:

I have no idea why but I loved the shit outs Randolph man tooth 

Wasn’t Mantooth something like half American Indian?

[Mr. Sparkle]

1 hour ago, Nashville said:

Wasn’t Mantooth something like half American Indian?

According to wikipedia, yes! 

[madmax]

13 hours ago, nachomama said:

Wait, wait wait...why was your dad in charge of naming the girls? I know your mom did all the hard work, with both flavors....but we know we can't trust the men with these things.

Well, she got more names - 4 boys and 2 girls.  Of course, every one of them except one was named after a family member in one way or another.  My mom still wonders where my dad came up with my sister's first name.

7 hours ago, icemiser69 said:

What was the worst thing you ever got caught doing in school, and what punishment did the school teacher give you?

I don't remember the infraction, probably talking because I am, and have always been, known as someone who just can't shut up, but the worst punishment I received was having my hands smacked with a ruler.  The good ol' days of corporal punishment....🙄

[nachomama]

Mantooth is kind of a giveaway. I also absolutely adored Robbie benson. I know that I watched “ode to Billie joe” when I was a kid but came as a complete shock when i found it on some cable station when I was in College. I remembered the whole part about him being sweet on some girl and her doll benjiman but never did remember why he done tossed himself off that bridge. Even bigger shock to find out it was roscoe p. Coltrane getting frisky with him when he had too much to drink at the barn dance and he didn’t remember it. And I couldn’t for the life of me figure out why my parents let me watch that when I was a kid. But clearly I didn’t remember so I guess all’s well. 

[nachomama]

17 hours ago, madmax said:

 The good ol' days of corporal punishment....🙄

My father was a firm believer in corporal punishment. He would tell our teachers if the kid next to us acted up they had permission to smack us around. He was not one of those parents who was gonna so storm the school for laying a hand on their kid. There was no such thing as innocent until proven guilty, it was guilty until proven guiltier. Although I must say my father never lost control smacking us. It was a very controlled punishment.  We'd push my mom right to the edge and my mom lost her ever loving mind when we drove her crazy, only difference being her hitting us didn't hurt. She chased my sister down the hall and my sister scooted under the bed, so my mom went side to side trying to grab her but she'd roll to the other side and then my mom just flipped the bed. I ran outside and hid in the bushes. She'd hit us with anything she had, a brush, a shoe, her purse but it didn't hurt. One time she was organizing tupperware in the kitchen and had all the bowls, lids and pots and pans out and she slapped us a few times with whatever and then she sat on the kitchen floor just muttering "sonofabitchsonofabitchsonofabitchSONOFABITCH"

But my dad only hit me 2 times when I didnt deserve it. Once on our trip to Canada when my sister kept pinching my butt so I put my knees in the back of his seat and he just kinda reached around and swatted at me. Still my sister's fault. She shoulda got the smack. And once in high school my sister and I got into a pissing contest because she was on the phone telling lies, saying she ended up with an STD because I used too much hair spray and the hair spray landed on the toilet paper that had pink dye in it. (It had nothing whatsoever to do with sneaking off and being a big ol' ho...) so she told me to turn down the tv. I said no, she had a phone in her room she could go in there to spread her lies, so she turned off the tv. So I turned on the radio. She turned off the radio and I turned it back on. So my dad marches out of his room and since my hand was on the radio he whopped me and once again, shoulda been whore face who got the slap. :D
 

[Mr. Sparkle]

Sorry, I can't talk today. I'm in a 2-day on-line OSHA training seminar. 

[nachomama]

OSHA hard pants. that's so sad. Oh I see it's online, I'm sure pants are an OSHA requirement.

Edited August 25, 2021 by nachomama

[Mr. Sparkle]

2 hours ago, nachomama said:

OSHA hard pants. that's so sad. Oh I see it's online, I'm sure pants are an OSHA requirement.

I have to have the camera on, but they can only see from the chest up. So maybe I'm wearing pants, or maybe... 

The first presenter is ok, the second guy is just reading the slides. I can read myself. 

[nachomama]

6 minutes ago, Superclam said:

I have to have the camera on, but they can only see from the chest up. So maybe I'm wearing pants, or maybe...

Risky because you might jump up suddenly and oopsy.

This might be weird, when did any of you discover ramen noodles? I figure I'm way behind the curve because we got nothing in New Mexico when I was growng up. I'd say by high school there were some girls who had ramen noodles and I was horrified by them, just the concept. These were also people who made "dip" for chips with ketchup, mayo and mustard, just mixed together. Their mom tried to put me down as a reference for her paperwork as having "applied" for a job.

by college obviously we were subsisting on the ramen. My roommate was Japanese from Hawaii so I learned all the tricks for doctoring them up so they weren't so boring. I did look it up they started importing them in 1971 I wouldn't have figured out what they were until about 1988 but how did people discover them?

[Mr. Sparkle]

5 minutes ago, icemiser69 said:

I guess your meeting ended early.

You know that would be a cool porn name, Captain Hardpants.

Nope, have until 3:30 today and tomorrow. I have to be on camera, but they don't know what I'm looking at. 

[Mr. Sparkle]

9 minutes ago, nachomama said:

This might be weird, when did any of you discover ramen noodles?

When I was pretty young, like 8 or so. The brand was called "Oodles of Noodles," I didn't hear the word "ramen" until later. Now, ramen is kind of an upscale trendy food, but of course it was a college staple. 

[Nashville]

1 hour ago, Superclam said:

The first presenter is ok, the second guy is just reading the slides. I can read myself. 

I’ve been on SOOO MANY calls like that.  That’s when the mute button can be your friend, so nobody hears you snoring.

[nachomama]

I spoke with my college roommate about this, he was fascinated by Kraft Macaroni and cheese. He claimed they didnt have it in Hawaii. It might just be that his japanese mother wasn't messing with the "mainland garbage foods" I spent $6 a week on groceries, 5 for a dollar ramen and he'd buy I think 4 kraft macnchees for a dollar. He has the weirdest eating habits of anyone I've ever known and it's not just an asian thing. No condiments. None whatsoever. That's no ketchup, no mayo, no salad dressings of any kind. NO tomatoes or onions. A sandwich is ONLY meat cheese bread, nothing else. He's never eaten spaghetti in his life because tomatoes. When we ordered pizza in college he'd lift the cheese and scrape off the sauce and lay it back down. HIs food can't touch and he has to eat it in a certain order. He will eat all fries first, or all veg first but he doesn't eat a bite of sandwich, then a cheeto, then a piece of fruit, nope all fruit, then all chips then all sammich. But he will eat seaweed as a snack. Something called "seed" which is dried plums with an astonishing amount of salt. They are sour, sour, sour. He eats dried cuttle fish as a snack.

We got him drunk in college and we made ore-ida french fries when we got the munchies and he ate them with ketchup. He absolutely swears up and down that no he did not! We don't have photographic evidence of it but we have at least 5 witnesses.

[madmax]

5 hours ago, icemiser69 said:

Was that in a religious school or public school?

Public school.  Third grade.  I was well known in the school as someone who talked a lot, but got all the work done and then some, so I got a lot of leeway with teachers, but not that one.

5 hours ago, Superclam said:

The first presenter is ok, the second guy is just reading the slides. I can read myself. 

The absolute worst, either in person or on zoom.  At least on zoom, I can mute and work without paying attention.

5 hours ago, nachomama said:

This might be weird, when did any of you discover ramen noodles? 

Probably around 10 or so.  It was cheap dinner when we were kids.  Not a ton of money after Asshole stepfather #1 lost his job, so we ate a lot of noodles.  Ramen wasn't super popular, but my mom found them somewhere and they were dinner a lot of the time.

4 hours ago, nachomama said:

HIs food can't touch and he has to eat it in a certain order. He will eat all fries first, or all veg first but he doesn't eat a bite of sandwich, then a cheeto, then a piece of fruit, nope all fruit, then all chips then all sammich.

My brother-in-law is like that, but he won't even put everything on his plate at once.  He'll put the meat on his plate, eat that.  Put the starch on his plate, eat that.  Put the veggies on his plate, eat that.  He's usually still eating when my sister-in-law is clearing the dishes.

[nachomama]

All my ads are in spanish.

I got my time off/PTO cleared for my trip. YAY! Now I have to quit spending money like it's going out of style so I can afford everything. Most things are pre-paid, tickets etc. Just food, gas, souvenirs etc. I bought a folding chair to take to the balloon fiesta, I bought a cooler for my car so I can bring home tons of food.

I have a friend in town now who is dropping off her kids for college and we are going to hang out. Last time she was here, I felt like I made a faux pas, they had flown in and had been ubering and the kids had some activity and casually asked if I would drop them off and under normal circumstances, absolutely, no problem. However my car had been on it's death bed for a while so I made an excuse, mostly just because I was horrified at the condition of my car. I wouldn't let anyone get in it. But I felt like when she came to town after that she avoided me. (She says covid, she does have lupus, so she's extra cautious) I shouldn't have been so self conscious, she knew me in college and the horrendous beast of a car I drove then...1984 AMC station wagon, google it, it's hilarous. We even got in an accident in it. We have notoriously one way streets here and divided lanes and you go around a corner and can't see so someone smacked into us. Wasn't a lot of damage but we didn't hit the library that night.

[Mr. Sparkle]

2 hours ago, icemiser69 said:

@ Superclam.

I think you had mentioned in the past on the WW diet, that you were limited to 1 cup of cooked pasta.  I assume that your were talking about pastas made with durum wheat.

Does the amount of pasta that you would be allowed to have change if the pasta was made out of chickpea flour or red lentil flour?

Short answer, yes. There's also a traditional pasta that has added protein, and that is 5 points per cup vs. 6 for regular. 

[Nashville]

1 hour ago, icemiser69 said:

Back in the day, I knew someone who was on Weight Watchers with the whole point system, and IIRC, the diet allowed for a higher number of total points per day when first starting out with the program, and as the individual loses weight over time, the point number was slowly reduced.  Am I correct about that?

I can’t speak to the newer points plus system, but under the old points system the number of points a day you were allowed was based on your current weight; as you lost weight, the number of points a day you were allowed also decreased.

[Mr. Sparkle]

Yes, what @Nashville said. There is a bottom limit, though, they don't want people to starve. 

It's still a points system. You have the option of using rollovers from the previous day if you didn't use the points, and to get more points from exercise. Both also with limits.