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  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
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    Nikkster wrote: »
    Yes. Poor Doglet :(

    Glad she's ok now.

    Sorry to hear about your friend's dog LIR. That must have been awful.

    I was a bout ten years old, so its fairly old news :D but yes it was awful. Ours didn't wear collars anyway ( it ruins the coat around the neck.) but it stuck with me. I just will not risk it.

    Horse people are the same. If you go to see a horse to buy and its wearing a head collar in the field then most sensible people would turn and walk away;)
  • GDB2222
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    Nikkster wrote: »
    Yes. Poor Doglet :(

    Glad she's ok now.

    Sorry to hear about your friend's dog LIR. That must have been awful.

    In the morning, she pulled herself free by snapping the buckle on the collar!
    No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?
  • silvercar
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    LydiaJ wrote: »
    The way you have phrased your answer suggests that you don't find either of these arguments particularly convincing. Which is just as well because it frees me to be blunt and say that I think both of them are piffle.

    Water isn't any more or less attracted by the moon than anything else. Tides are made of water because water is free to flow about the place, whereas rock/soil etc aren't. If they were, we would get tides of them too - actually we do a bit as the outer core of the earth is liquid, and even the mantle has some flexibility, but because everything goes up and down together with us on top, we don't notice any of it happening.

    The menstruation/moon thing would only make any sense if all women had cycles that were (a) regular and (b) 27 or 28 days long. Loads of us don't. How do the proponents of such a theory suggest that a woman with a cycle of 23 days, or an irregular one that varies from 21 days to 33 days, etc, should get in kilter with nature????


    There is evidence that nuns menstruate around the same time as do women who live in the same house sometimes. So likely that people can influence each other, but I don't reckon the moon has anything to do with it.
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  • PasturesNew
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    LydiaJ wrote: »
    Maybe I'm being dim here, but why would the water in us be any more affected by the moon than the rest of what's in us?
    If you look at the sea - and tides - as the moon comes round, the gravitational force pulls the water up into a "dome" - and because the water is domed it makes the tide go out.

    It must be similar to the water in our bodies - it's being pulled towards the moon's direction as it passes over us.

    ..... and I can't believe I just said that to a science teacher..... :)
  • Nikkster
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    GDB2222 wrote: »
    In the morning, she pulled herself free by snapping the buckle on the collar!

    Clever Doglet :)
    silvercar wrote: »
    There is evidence that nuns menstruate around the same time as do women who live in the same house sometimes. So likely that people can influence each other, but I don't reckon the moon has anything to do with it.

    Yes, I'm also sceptical that this is due to the moon. I do wonder what the advantage of it is though? Everyone gets their hormone-induced bad mood out of the way at the same time? I'd have thought it would have made more sense for cycles to stagger themselves.
  • PasturesNew
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    HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »
    What kind of curry requires Krispy Kremes as an ingredient? :eek:

    The best meals are cooked with love, so you have to first fill the chef with goodies, so they're feeling in a good mood.
  • PasturesNew
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    Nikkster wrote: »

    I've spent the afternoon cleaning the house. With a glass of prosecco.

    .
    Does that work better than Flash liquid then?
  • Nikkster
    Nikkster Posts: 6,391 Forumite
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    PasturesNew wrote: »
    The best meals are cooked with love, so you have to first fill the chef with goodies, so they're feeling in a good mood.

    Goodies including vino :D

    Hope tonight goes fabulously Doozergirl.
  • Nikkster
    Nikkster Posts: 6,391 Forumite
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    edited 13 September 2014 at 7:02PM
    PasturesNew wrote: »
    Does that work better than Flash liquid then?

    I'd recommend it. Certainly makes the whole process more enjoyable :beer:

    That and some tunes on the radio.


    I'm slightly embarrassed that my friends from work will know I've had a mid-afternoon drink. I have warned them.
  • PasturesNew
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    GDB2222 wrote: »
    .... a through lounge diner with big picture windows front and back. We don't have net curtains.
    How do you leave that when you are absent? Are the curtains open, advertising it's empty? Or do you stick up nets when you're not in residence?
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