Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

PasturesNew

Generali wrote: »

Dunno. I was in imperial but now I'm 167cm, give or take.

Google tells me I am 154.94cm

GDB2222

Generali wrote: »

Funny isn't it. All that money is pumped into screening for breast cancer and cervical cancer when on the face of it you'd be much better trying to prevent heart disease.

You could subscribe to the conspiracy theory, I suppose: heart disease is mostly a disease that afflicts old people, and they don't matter. I think that what's actually happened is that a great deal of research has gone into delaying the age at which people die of heart attacks. Given that you have to die of something, I think I'd prefer dying of a heart attack than dementia.

michaels

lostinrates wrote: »

Breasts are like pandas.

They are cute and every one likes them. Men like them, women like them. Every one has a vested interested in saving them.

Bowels, bits of pipe or organ somewhere obscure in the body that people don't see or really 'care ' about in the same way its hard to get so much interest in.

Hmmm, heard them described as puppies but pandas is a whole order of magnitude larger.....

Generali

GDB2222 wrote: »

You could subscribe to the conspiracy theory, I suppose: heart disease is mostly a disease that afflicts old people, and they don't matter. I think that what's actually happened is that a great deal of research has gone into delaying the age at which people die of heart attacks. Given that you have to die of something, I think I'd prefer dying of a heart attack than dementia.

TBH, I think that lobby groups got their acts together for those sorts of screening.

bugslet

michaels wrote: »

Hmmm, heard them described as puppies but pandas is a whole order of magnitude larger.....

But probably appropriate:o, says the woman of naturally Jordan-eque proportions.

bugslet

Generali wrote: »

Maybe.

There are studies that I've seen referred to in The Economist and elsewhere that have said that breast screening is actively harmful as it throws up so many false positives compared to the number of cases it finds early. This, I think, is the study concerned:

http://summaries.cochrane.org/CD001877/screening-for-breast-cancer-with-mammography

There's several studies casting doubt on mammograms, starting with a Danish study back in 2001 and the most recent being the cochrane study.

I have elected not to have them, which has elicited a fair amount of mild disapproval from certain quarters, but it's one of those decisions you have to make for yourself.

Hope everything starts feeling better chewie.

lostinrates

If you were a car key where would you hide?


I was dead on my feet yesterday evening, I think I had the key but DH drove, so not sure why I took or wS given key. He took my hand bag, where is would normally put key.

We came in my not all coming in door I Was sitting down within ten minutes. Its not in any of the places I might put it as back up places

Just borrowed RP's car to get big dogs pills but really need our car this week!

bugslet

Did you go to the loo and put it on a windowsill, that's a favourite trick of mine? Have you put it in a regular place and it's fallen down - happened once and mine fell into a welly, took hours to discover.

Doozergirl

lostinrates wrote: »

If you were a car key where would you hide?


I was dead on my feet yesterday evening, I think I had the key but DH drove, so not sure why I took or wS given key. He took my hand bag, where is would normally put key.

We came in my not all coming in door I Was sitting down within ten minutes. Its not in any of the places I might put it as back up places

Just borrowed RP's car to get big dogs pills but really need our car this week!

In the car, in the front door, by the sink, in my bed, tucked behind the sink in the loo where I've rushed in, desperate for a wee

PasturesNew

Surely it's in your bag. If you've got a key and don't use it, it goes in the bag and you've no reason to get it out again. Therefore, it's in the bag.... maybe tucked into a different pouch/pocket of the inner bag, or purse as you didn't need it to hand.