Nice people thread part 7 - a thread in its prime

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

I wonder if there's a dual effect here. Firstly you have parents not vaccinating. However you also have parents who - unlike when I was young and caught everything except chickenpox - still take their kids out when they are ill so that other children catch everything. I can remember as a child being kept indoors whenever I was ill so that I couldn't infect my kids. These days I see a lot of parents out with kids who are sick, including recently one with mumps.

When I was young, if any kid had anything we were all sent round to play with them so we'd all catch it at the same time and get it over with.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

I have not had rubella vaccine...missed it at school.

I missed it too ... by stealth. I had the slip of paper for parents to sign and I caught dad off-guard when it was due back and told him where to sign. He had no idea what he was doing .... I didn't want some needle in my arm, so got him to sign the "No" box.

zagubov

Pedantic scientist Mode. Just enjoyed the US Sherlock series "Elementary" but got annoyed by plot twist involving a rice allergy which I was led to believe was one of the three food allergies people never get (the others being pears and lamb/mutton).:mad:Brilliant show though!

Anyhoo, got a bit of deja vu from the previous posts discussing about kinetic energy. Had to cover "vitalism" on a course I'm teaching and found out that mv2 was the formula for the vital force (vis viva) of a moving object. Later abandoned it when whoever-it-was invented the kinetic energy concept (sorry can't help with that last bit Lydia).

lostinrates

Zag, I didn't know lamb was low risk for people, it is for cats and dogs too.

Fwiw though rice still aggravates my cat with grain sensitivity we think.....but are not 100% sure. It always makes me wonder why 'hypoallergenic' food for meat eating pets is often not lamb but rather chicken,

LydiaJ

chewmylegoff wrote: »

haha! still, presumably weight shouldn't all that much difference to cycling, unless there is elevation involved when it would of course make an enormous difference?

zagubov wrote: »

Anyhoo, got a bit of deja vu from the previous posts discussing about kinetic energy. Had to cover "vitalism" on a course I'm teaching and found out that mv2 was the formula for the vital force (vis viva) of a moving object. Later abandoned it when whoever-it-was invented the kinetic energy concept (sorry can't help with that last bit Lydia).

Actually, both chewy and Gen were right up to a point. Gen is right that kinetic energy is proportional to mass, so if you're twice as heavy you need twice as much of it. But once you've got up to speed, you've got all the kinetic energy you need, and to keep going at the same speed, you just need enough to overcome the friction and air resistance, which doesn't depend on weight much, if at all. All that's assuming, as chewy says, that there's no elevation.

zagubov

lostinrates wrote: »

Zag, I didn't know lamb was low risk for people, it is for cats and dogs too.

Fwiw though rice still aggravates my cat with grain sensitivity we think.....but are not 100% sure. It always makes me wonder why 'hypoallergenic' food for meat eating pets is often not lamb but rather chicken,

I stumbled across this years ago . There used to be a craze for "cleansing diets" back when everybody (well subsections of the public) thought all health problems were due to food allergies or additives. These were the foods least likely to cause allergic responses in humans and I believe I read claims they never occured at all.

I certainly never encountered anyone that had one that wasn't confusing it with food intolerances which were usually malabsorption problems rather than allergies.

There was also a peculiar kind of mental illness you used to hear about where people thought they were "allergic to the 20th century" (ie all synthetic and modern materials). They'd in all seriousness be shown being taken into hospital with plastic ventilation masks without a trace of irony.:rotfl:

I don't think this made it into the 21st century. It was the Elizabethan equivalent of "attacks of the vapours" I suppose.:)

sss555s

I wonder how chewy's mass will cope with the kinetic energy from his OH when he presents her with token wedding rings

silvercar

lostinrates wrote: »

Zag, I didn't know lamb was low risk for people, it is for cats and dogs too.

Fwiw though rice still aggravates my cat with grain sensitivity we think.....but are not 100% sure. It always makes me wonder why 'hypoallergenic' food for meat eating pets is often not lamb but rather chicken,

I thought it was rice, lettuce and lamb.

I know pears and apples can make hayfever worse so they must contain some allergens.

lostinrates

zagubov wrote: »

I stumbled across this years ago . There used to be a craze for "cleansing diets" back when everybody (well subsections of the public) thought all health problems were due to food allergies or additives. These were the foods least likely to cause allergic responses in humans and I believe I read claims they never occured at all.

I certainly never encountered anyone that had one that wasn't confusing it with food intolerances which were usually malabsorption problems rather than allergies.

There was also a peculiar kind of mental illness you used to hear about where people thought they were "allergic to the 20th century" (ie all synthetic and modern materials). They'd in all seriousness be shown being taken into hospital with plastic ventilation masks without a trace of irony.:rotfl:

I don't think this made it into the 21st century. It was the Elizabethan equivalent of "attacks of the vapours" I suppose.:)

We used to live down the road from one of those allergic to everything people, she was o. The news and tv a few times, and the paper. I never met her though.


It was a pain because our road needed pot holes filled and the council could not do it because of her, she had a huge exclusion zone around her.



ATM I feel like one of those people, I keep discovering new things I can no longer eat or drink. The annoying thing is I crave the things I cannot have even though I do not normally have most of them., E.g. Lager. What I would do for a lager (and lime) right now. Or orange juice, Oh....juice.

silvercar

When baby chewy arrives does it get a double barreled surname?