Preparedness for when

pineapple

Was looking for details on a particular herb and I found these guys. Have never bought from them so this is not a recommendation but there is some potentially useful information.
http://www.purplesage.org.uk/

RAS

westcoastscot wrote: »

Hi Guys,
That's an interesting idea Mar. When we lived on the hill we ate seasonally, .............grew tatties, veggies, apples and soft fruit.

Nosey beggar here wcs:D

Which apple varieties did you grow?

RAS

GreyQueen

Hmmm, interesting video about the "anti-religiousity immunisation".

I perfectly believe that TPTB are fully-capable of attempting something of this nature, but I'm not at all sure that the science is sufficient to the task. It may be a fake or it may be a real leak, who can know? I would suspect culture and environment pay a greater part than brain chemistry.

I had my flu jab a week ago but have always been virulently anti-religious, so who could tell the difference?:rotfl:

On a workplace course about racism, something interesting was brought to our attention; the part of the brain which reacts on a functional MRI when confronted by not-us flares identically in people of racist and non-racist views.

The difference between the outcomes is that in non-racists, there is a smack-down a fraction of a second later from another, more modern brain part - think it's the cerebral cortex which does the smacking-down - of the instinctive reaction our most primitive brain has to not-us. The over ride is so rapid that the non-racist would have no awareness of the instinct to dislike/ distrust someone who wasn't like us.

Some people have brains which don't function as they should in respect of governing their more violent emotions. If you can identify someone with no innate resistance to reacting violently when thwarted, what do you do? Nothing? Do you wait until they do something extreme, even if that costs another person their life? And then lock them up? For how long? Repeated deprivations of liberty until something so appalling happens that they are deemed too dangerous to ever be released?

I listened to a radio documentary about a child (un-named of course) who was extremely violent towards other children. They identified that the parts of his brain which should allow the function of empathy weren't working. He did whatever came into his head with no conscience about how it affected others. And he couldn't be made to feel conscience or empathy - his brain wasn't wired for it. At the time of the documentary he was about 12, I think, and they were working with what they had, trying to give him a groundwork for interacting with the world which would cause him and others minimal suffering.

It was as basic as "If you do X to a person, they will feel Y emotion and physical pain. That will make them feel Z towards you and they are liable to do (insert whatever). This outcome isn't in your best interests, therefore it is better for you not to do X in the first place".

Without the empathy, they were literally having to draw him diagrams of cause and effect about what others would do in response to his actions and try to get him to recognise the probable consequences and act in his own interests by avoiding conflicts. They weren't overly hopeful of a successful outcome, either.

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Enjoying a day of sunshine and showers thus far, waiting for things to settle a bit before heading allotmentwards.

Bob, I was walking around on blisters inc one which subsequently burst (not pleasant) and had half a pharmacy's worth of dressings. The make up pad trick is a good one, I'd already come across tampons and panty-liners as emergency wound dressings in survival-type books before. And for use as firestarters.

Now, we want to see one of you fellers having the nerve to go shopping for "san-pro" and make-up remover pads. G'wan, I dare ya.

Jesting aside, they have the advantage of being widely-available and cheaper than real surgical dressings. Be aware that adhesive strips lose their stickiness over time, though.

westcoastscot

RAS wrote: »

Nosey beggar here wcs:D

Which apple varieties did you grow?

RAS

Hi RAS, not sure actually - they were ancient trees there when we arrived - most were small red very crunchy apples - maybe cox's? we had two cookers and a crab-apple. Lovely!!

westcoastscot

GQ that "wiring" is similar to those with autism - I've had to have lots of conversations with my son about perception, consequences etc - for example if he enters a room full of colleagues and sees the guy he wants to talk to at the back of the room - as he crosses the room peers will say hello and he as to say hello back or they will offended. He thinks its a load of nonsense, since they "know" that he regards them as he spends time with them - but they aren't his focus today.
He "plays the game" now in lots of ways but is frustrated that he has to as it takes time away from achieving his particular aims.

I agree also that such medication is not as accurate as they may have us think, and anti-social behaviours although affected by brain chemistry are a combination of factors.

WCS

VJsmum

Interesting - I thought it sounded a lot like autism too.

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GreyQueen wrote: »

I was walking around on blisters inc one which subsequently burst

If you must continue walking, you are better off draining the blister(s) as, if it/they burst, the burst is usually toward the middle, leaving a large area of exposed sub-dermis.

If you drain them first (lancing a few millimetres from the edge), there's more chance of the blister skin remaining in place, as protection for the sub-dermis.

Once drained, cover with two or three makeup pads (on top of each other), securing them in place with a couple of strips of micropore tape,

Depending on how tight the boot is, a couple of layers of bandage may be used, over the pads, to keep everything in place, before carefully replacing the sock and boot.

Now, we want to see one of you fellers having the nerve to go shopping for "san-pro" and make-up remover pads. G'wan, I dare ya.

Well, I've never bought San-Pro (had to Google it, as I'd never heard of it), but I have bought tampons for GFs, before now.

I also, while assembling my BOB, bought a pack of makeup removing pads.

GreyQueen

My own brother, in his middle forties now, is almost certainly one of the undiagnosed Asperger's people. I've seen him miss a lot of social clues and seen other people left swinging in the wind as a result.

I'm not talking marvellously-subtle things that any of us can miss out on, either, just straightforward stuff. He and I were once running a carboot stall and someone came by whom brother knew from a martial arts class they both did. The other guy stopped to say hello, how are you? and brother answered briefly then silence.

The other guy was left squirming as the expected reciprocal part of the conversation was missing. He squirmed for a few seconds then made his excuses and left. My brother is highly-intelligent but he doesn't "do" people very well at all; even with close family you have to make all the running.

I suspect that there is a lot of it about. He isn't missing on empathy, just seems to have social blindspots, if you know what I mean. It's OK within the family but can cause misunderstandings outside of it.

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I don't know if this offer is a national thing, or just my local branch clearing stock, but I just bought 2x2L bottles of vinegar, from my local Tesco Express, for 98p, ie. 49p a bottle.

westcoastscot

GQ sounds just like my son - he was diagnosed at 25, as part of some routine aptitude tests. We always knew he was different, and now we know why! He's happy he wasn't diagnosed when young as feels it may have changed his perception of himself, but since we home-schooled he's had the freedom to explore his own personality and although it is trying sometimes and has limited him to a certain degree, he's been able to find a direction in life where his "differentness" is a blessing rather than a curse.