Help to buy? Yes please, say bankers!

IveSeenTheLight

chucky wrote: »

Have you been eating lemons, that's a very, very bitter post...

Maybe they should have some Synsepalum dulcificum.

Synsepalum dulcificum, also known as the miracle fruit, is a plant with a berry that, when eaten, causes sour foods (such as lemons and limes) subsequently consumed to taste sweet.

This effect is due to miraculin, which is used commercially as a sugar substitute. Common names for this species and its berry include miracle fruit,[2] miracle berry, miraculous berry,[2] sweet berry,[3][4][5] and in West Africa, where the species originates, agbayun,[6] taami, asaa, and ledidi.

The berry itself has a low sugar content[7] and a mildly sweet tang. It contains a glycoprotein molecule, with some trailing carbohydrate chains, called miraculin.[8][9]

When the fleshy part of the fruit is eaten, this molecule binds to the tongue's taste buds, causing sour foods to taste sweet.

At neutral pH, miraculin binds and blocks the receptors, but at low pH (resulting from ingestion of sour foods) miraculin binds protons and becomes able to activate the sweet receptors, resulting in the perception of sweet taste.[10]

This effect lasts until the protein is washed away by saliva (up to about 60 minutes)

System

Hah, that's probably the most interesting thing I've read on here for ages. Where can I get some?

Edit: Of course http://www.firebox.com/product/2167/Miracle-Fruit-Tablets

antrobus

TruckerT wrote: »

I have never read a GD post with which I strongly disagree.....

Not even the OP in this thread?!?

Let's backtrack; the title of this thread is Help to buy? Yes please, say bankers! and cites, as its source, an article in the Guardian in which not a single banker says anything at all. Talk about misleading, deceptive ......

Graham_Devon

antrobus wrote: »

Not even the OP in this thread?!?

Let's backtrack; the title of this thread is Help to buy? Yes please, say bankers! and cites, as its source, an article in the Guardian in which not a single banker says anything at all. Talk about misleading, deceptive ......

That's the title of the guardian article I link to.

Hardly trying to be misleading or deceptive.

What you fancy accusing me of next?

System

A more accurate thread title would have been:

"Help to buy? Yes please, say a variety of people!"

antrobus

Graham_Devon wrote: »

That's the title of the guardian article I link to.

Hardly trying to be misleading or deceptive.

What you fancy accusing me of next?

I merely noted that the headline Help to buy? Yes please, say bankers is both misleading and deceptive.Which as it turns out it is, since (as previously noted) not a single banker says anything at all.

The article quotes no banker as saying anything at all about HTB. Ergo to claim (or indeed to repeat the claim) that they are saying anything about HTB would be both misleading and deceptive.

I hope that's clear.:)

Loughton_Monkey

antrobus wrote: »

I merely noted that the headline Help to buy? Yes please, say bankers is both misleading and deceptive.Which as it turns out it is, since (as previously noted) not a single banker says anything at all.

The article quotes no banker as saying anything at all about HTB. Ergo to claim (or indeed to repeat the claim) that they are saying anything about HTB would be both misleading and deceptive.

I hope that's clear.:)

It's a classic case of "GD Defense No 546(b)", otherwise known as "I'm only quoting the article. Didn't say I agreed with it...."

Annie_Nameless

antrobus wrote: »

I merely noted that the headline Help to buy? Yes please, say bankers is both misleading and deceptive.Which as it turns out it is, since (as previously noted) not a single banker says anything at all.

The article quotes no banker as saying anything at all about HTB. Ergo to claim (or indeed to repeat the claim) that they are saying anything about HTB would be both misleading and deceptive.

I hope that's clear.:)

That's just silly! Newspapers use headlines in order to attract attention, and MSE posters do the same. We are all free to agree or disagree with the content of any newspaper article or any MSE post. But even the Guardian doesn't regularly print stuff which is blatantly misleading and deceptive. 'Challenging' would be a better description, and you haven't actually said that you would disagree with the proposition that HTB is potentially an extremely attractive money-maker for the already rich.

chucky

antrobus wrote: »

I merely noted that the headline Help to buy? Yes please, say bankers is both misleading and deceptive.Which as it turns out it is, since (as previously noted) not a single banker says anything at all.

The article quotes no banker as saying anything at all about HTB. Ergo to claim (or indeed to repeat the claim) that they are saying anything about HTB would be both misleading and deceptive.

I hope that's clear.:)

It's clear