A chicken is for life not just Christmas Dinner (An 11+ ELITE Thread)

Savvybuyer

fairclaire wrote: »

Oh dear Savvy, you have really let it get to you Sounds like you are over thinking a few things. I won't tell you not to because I know better
I think you just have to apply a little 'sense' to the thoughts that are affecting you......not eating and drinking as much ISNT good for you. You have sense in abundance, we all know that. If you really can't face the milk, maybe look at alternatives? :kisses3:

Thanks - I needed you to (and knew you would) tell me that, mother!:) As for looking at 'alternatives' though, what? It would mean getting rid of all diary, completely and, whilst people such as strict vegetarians manage it, it would just be so impracticable for me and limit my diet very severely (for me, an already 'fussy' eater). Not just milk, but all cheese, yogurt, butter, all and any spread, lots of cakes that have milk in them somewhere, any dried milk in any products, I'd have to not have any milk chocolate (or vegelate) at all. I don't like any chocolate (vegelate) except milk, so that would all have to go.

Anyway - what's wrong with licking a bit of pus off a cow's wounds? It ain't gonna cause me much harm is it?:think:

fairclaire

Tinyshoes wrote: »

Mildred stop off at mine on your way back.

I'm not too bad for wine. I took full advantage of Ts last 25% off though. I did think at the time I had spent rather a lot over that week.....but Ive bought next to no wine since and I'm still fairly well stocked.
There are never any wine glitches any more

TrulyMadly

Savvy....you are in a pickle


Can you just stop reading all this stuff and take a step back from it all or not?

Take your pickle head off and put your rational one on:)

David.

Savvybuyer wrote: »

I don't like to report that I didn't eat too well today. I found it difficult to drink much milk at all with my breakfast cereal as I didn't feel like having it too much having been informed it may contain pus. I tend to overthink things and I've been thinking about it ever since. Sometimes ignorance is bliss, but with the genie having been let out of the bottle, it can't go back and I can't 'unlearn' that information. Nor did I eat many sandwiches at lunch, as they had butter or spread on them and, of course, that contains buttermilk. The meat on the sandwiches probably contained blood and faecal remnants, the fruit, including apples, I had with them was probably trod by numerous flies and not washed off completely and absolutely and, if it was, the water itself would have copper contamination and thus contaminated the apples with that. But I did eat the fruit, together with drinking my water bottled in Armathwaite, Cumbria which isn't a million miles away from a place called Sellafield.

I've looked again on the internet tonight regarding milk. I do not know what or who to believe. Some sources are saying the pus would be very concentrated (or should that be extremely diluted?) - http://nutritionfacts.org/2011/09/08/how-much-pus-is-there-in-milk/ - in effect a drop of pus in a cup of milk.

However it may also appear that they are talking about somatic cells, which are the cells that form pus rather than necessarily pus itself. I suppose it's a bit like the water source of a factory which occasionally allows a drop of some nasty liquid into the water, like a drop of grey paint or something. Then again the Wikipedia article on "pus" - and I don't know what to believe or whether to believe this as I do not have a PhD in biological science - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pus - says that pus consists of protein-rich fluid. Surely, then, protein is a good thing?

I suppose everything in the environment eco-system feeds on everything else. And I'm sure the bread used for my sandwiches had contact with the air and had dust particles on it too. That said I was perfectly happy eating my cereal and drinking milk for many decades, until today. In my slight anxiety I've probably made it worse as I sipped a little less and didn't drink the remainder so, if there was any pus cell in it, it's probably been magnified more because I drank less of the milk in total - whereas I had drank as much as normal, it would have been further diluted and form a lesser percentage. My 'aim' was to reduce the likelihood of taking pus by drinking less of the milk, but, if it was there, it's formed a greater percentage of the smaller amount of milk that I drank. So I'd probably made matters worse.

And instead of milk with cereal tonight - as I feel hungry - I'm having some sweets. But they contain sugar, probably a worse-implicated thing nowadays and if I continue I may end up with diabetes. Moreover, it's "invert sugar" - possibly the worst of the lot and isn't caramelised sugar - or ammonia caramel - linked to cancer somewhere?

Milk has caused me no known harm over decades. Yet I wonder whether this is simply another lie that my parents and teachers told me, just like parents and teachers of everyone, I assume, did. Is there anything left that parents/teachers said that actually turns out to be true - or was everything they said lies? "Father Christmas". "The Tooth Fairy". "There are nine planets in the solar system". Perhaps "milk is good for you" - maybe I need to add that now?

I read [red] that if cows do have problems, the diary workers clean their teats using their fingers. Now - whatever is on those worker's fingers I shudder to think! I've heard of factories where factory workers make other products and seen undercovers of workers spitting in soup etc. I'm not necessarily on about that but I do doubt that many workers wash their hands after every single visit to the loo or any contact with anything else, because the vast majority of people do not do everything on every occasion and consistently every time. If we have trouble with data collectors not scanning every item how can we be sure that workers wash their hands every time? Especially as most people are not people that follow procedures to letters and most people fail to follow rules all the time - you only have to note how many people passed me on the A-road this afternoon whilst I was doing the speed limit!

Otherwise I may as well continue to suck the pus from cow's teats I suspect.

Get a grip savvy there is fly doo doos in everything :rotfl: and what about the people coughing on your food on the production line. You have lived to be 743 the way you have been eating don't worry about it now

zippydooda

davemorton wrote: »

I remember once paying 15euro for a pint, oh those were the days

around my town last night like most Fridays. all drinks £1.75 in yates. £1.50 in wetherspoons. (3 off )

tis why zippy falls over walls going home.
I get taxi now.

fuzzgun19

Jelly_Biactol wrote: »

Here's some I made earlier (not today, will try and post pics of those later).

I started off with the idea of making a fruit bowl, but it was difficult to make free-form (hence the wonky shape:o) so made a bowl of fruit instead - banana tree, bunch of cherries, apples and a pear, and a couple of pineapples; the coloured glaze didn't come out as intended, but still some interesting patterns:); it broke during kiln-firing, unfortunately:(



This is my 'greedy bowl', I use it for my M/S Meal Deal puddings:)


I didn't make the bowl - just the glazing and decoration is mine.

Reminds me of this :rotfl:

fairclaire

Savvybuyer wrote: »

Thanks - I needed you to (and knew you would) tell me that, mother!:) As for looking at 'alternatives' though, what? It would mean getting rid of all diary, completely and, whilst people such as strict vegetarians manage it, it would just be so impracticable for me and limit my diet very severely (for me, an already 'fussy' eater). Not just milk, but all cheese, yogurt, butter, all and any spread, lots of cakes that have milk in them somewhere, any dried milk in any products, I'd have to not have any milk chocolate (or vegelate) at all. I don't like any chocolate (vegelate) except milk, so that would all have to go.

Anyway - what's wrong with licking a bit of pus off a cow's wounds? It ain't gonna cause me much harm is it?:think:

Read your own post again you already know what's going through your head is irrational, you've said as much!
There's nothing wrong with irrational thinking, we all do it. I worry about getting ill from touching a door handle, or a trolley handle, or a 50p piece! :eek: chances are I won't, but it doesn't stop it worrying me. I have adapted and found ways round it.
One thing I would be doing if I was your mother though would be stopping you reading up on it on the net. You'll never find the truth out there.......just lots of opinions!

David.

Out of the blue :eek: 1 punch :eek:

Savvybuyer

TrulyMadly wrote: »

Savvy....you are in a pickle


Can you just stop reading all this stuff and take a step back from it all or not?

Take your pickle head off and put your rational one on:)

Yeah, for me to be someone who looks at things logically - and yet, when it comes to emotion and things like that, it's all irrational. Why do I let it affect me like that? Yet I do. I'm talking rubbish aren't I now in what follows: but when I didn't know, I was fine, but with that, it's not the same as I keep thinking whilst drinking it and not really wanting to much anymore - and here's the rubbish - when they inject people with vaccine from cow pox, wasn't the vaccine like pus or something and stopped them getting smallpox?

Tinyshoes

fairclaire wrote: »

I'm not too bad for wine. I took full advantage of Ts last 25% off though. I did think at the time I had spent rather a lot over that week.....but Ive bought next to no wine since and I'm still fairly well stocked.
There are never any wine glitches any more

Red we are down to last 10 bottles. 4 from the M&S glitch that only I got.

White I still have enough to last me few months as I buy it faster than I drink it and fizz I seem to have a shed load, I found an odd bottle of encounter bay when I reorganised the bathroom on Thursday. And 3 bottles of Ts prosecco I had totally forgotten about because they were in with some other white. :T

I was checking the damage from the broken champagne bottle, none of the bottles in the boxes nearby had gone mouldy thankfully.