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Generali

vivatifosi wrote: »

I apologise in advance as it is a bit childish... but this made me laugh quite a lot:
http://metro.co.uk/2015/03/14/bored-pilot-draws-giant-penis-in-the-sky-5103457/

This is a Thing amongst cyclists too:

http://metro.co.uk/2014/10/07/cyclist-uses-gps-to-create-a-giant-40-mile-wide-bicycle-picture-on-google-maps-4895420/

lostinrates

My vit d pills are the most glorious colour. The first pills I've had that I've genuinely thought look like kids might think they are delicious. They look like they are filled with something a little like Curaçao. Glowing. They'll cheer up the pill popping a little.

lostinrates

Generali wrote: »

This is a Thing amongst cyclists too:

http://metro.co.uk/2014/10/07/cyclist-uses-gps-to-create-a-giant-40-mile-wide-bicycle-picture-on-google-maps-4895420/

Horse riders are generally quite pleased just to have a bit of variety in safe routes.

zagubov

lostinrates wrote: »

My vit d pills are the most glorious colour. The first pills I've had that I've genuinely thought look like kids might think they are delicious. They look like they are filled with something a little like Curaçao. Glowing. They'll cheer up the pill popping a little.

Ironically they're the one vitamin you need to not take too much of.

Generali

zagubov wrote: »

Ironically they're the one vitamin you need to not take too much of.

Vitamin A can be fatal too: polar bear liver finished off many a polar explorer apparently.

http://animals.howstuffworks.com/mammals/eat-polar-bear-liver.htm

The native peoples of the Arctic have never shied away from cooking up some polar bear stew, but they've long known to avoid eating the livers of various arctic creatures. Western explorers, however, learned the hard way. As early as 1596, explorers returned to Europe with accounts of horrible illnesses resulting from the consumption of polar bear liver [source: Rodahl and Moore].
Illness severity depended on how much liver the explorers consumed, but symptoms typically included drowsiness, sluggishness, irritability, severe headache, bone pain, blurred vision and vomiting. Perhaps the most horrific symptom they encountered was peeling skin. While milder cases merely involved flaking around the mouth, some accounts reported cases of full-body skin loss. Even the thick skin on the bottoms of a patient's feet could peel away, leaving the underlying flesh bloody and exposed. The worst cases ended in liver damage, hemorrhage, coma and death.

zagubov

Generali wrote: »

Vitamin A can be fatal too: polar bear liver finished off many a polar explorer apparently.

http://animals.howstuffworks.com/mammals/eat-polar-bear-liver.htm

I read a while back it was the vit D in polar bear liver that lead to hallucinations, convulsions and eventually death. Polar bear liver was the only part of any mammal you mustn't eat. (there;s six venomous mammals but don;t know if their venom's orally active).

Not that vit A's a barrel of laughs. It's used as a tanning pill in some countries, but when they tested it as a chemoprotectant against lung cancer in smokers they had to end the trial early as it turned out to increase the rate.

Generali

zagubov wrote: »

I read a while back it was the vit D in polar bear liver that lead to hallucinations, convulsions and eventually death. Polar bear liver was the only part of any mammal you mustn't eat. (there;s six venomous mammals but don;t know if their venom's orally active).

Not that vit A's a barrel of laughs. It's used as a tanning pill in some countries, but when they tested it as a chemoprotectant against lung cancer in smokers they had to end the trial early as it turned out to increase the rate.

You're told not to eat liver when pregnant. Mrs Generali was gutted as she loves a nice bit of foie gras.

Unusually, Aus only has 1 venomous mammal: the platypus. Normally we're right up there in the venomous league.

zagubov

Generali wrote: »

You're told not to eat liver when pregnant. Mrs Generali was gutted as she loves a nice bit of foie gras.

Unusually, Aus only has 1 venomous mammal: the platypus. Normally we're right up there in the venomous league.

It's one of the bits I enjoy about classification: there's very few venomous mammals (platypus selondons and shrews) and no venomous birds (but one poisonous one).

It helps to explain the advantages of warm-bloodedness. Venom's irrelevant when you're elsewhere when it's delivered by the cold-blooded equivalent of the biosphere's Yodel department. :rotfl:

Nikkster

Its generally fat soluble vitamins that you need to watch re overdosing, I think. Again, I think, because the water-soluble ones don't get stored in the body and just get pee'd out.

Vit A is really important for foetal development, its a vitamin A gradient that tells the ball of cells which end is the head and which is the tail. Its important for a lot of things in the rest of us too. I spent a lot of time playing with vit A in the lab for my you-know-what.

Generali

zagubov wrote: »

It's one of the bits I enjoy about classification: there's very few venomous mammals (platypus selondons and shrews) and no venomous birds (but one poisonous one).

It helps to explain the advantages of warm-bloodedness. Venom's irrelevant when you're elsewhere when it's delivered by the cold-blooded equivalent of the biosphere's Yodel department. :rotfl:

I think I'm right in saying that the funnel web is highly venomous when it comes to people but mildly irritating to dogs. Also that the most venomous spider in Aus is the daddy long legs but its teeth are too short to puncture human skin!

I'm not positive either is correct but I have been told both things.