Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

silvercar

Wheezy wrote: »

That's also very important yes.
But I meant clicking on a user name (like mine for example ) and viewing the mini statistics under the public profile.

Cough cough.

I clicked on your home page and got offered to upgrade the imdb reference to wheezy the penguin!

Clearer hints required!

Belated Happy Birthday! Hope it was a good one!

kabayiri

Belated Birthday Congrats Wheezy
(I'm slow on the uptake sometimes)

Segway time : speaking of wheezy....the subject of clean air came up last night on telly and this morning.

There is more and more evidence linking so called Black Carbon (air pollution) to even things like heart attack.

DD pointed out something to me a while back. If you see Lichen growing on the pavement outside your home it's a sign of good clean air. There is lichen on the pavement here, but then there are very few cars which drive down the road.

We need to kill off the desire for people making these very short car journeys. Not easy though.

michaels

Lots of the risk seems to come from things we are deliberately bringing into our homes such as spray deodorants and air-fresheners (and no doubt the fabric conditioners and everything else that these days seems to have 'continuous fragrance'. Still there is no chance of DW listening to this as she hasn't for the last few years I have been banging on about such things making my hay fever worse.

kabayiri

michaels wrote: »

Lots of the risk seems to come from things we are deliberately bringing into our homes such as spray deodorants and air-fresheners (and no doubt the fabric conditioners and everything else that these days seems to have 'continuous fragrance'. Still there is no chance of DW listening to this as she hasn't for the last few years I have been banging on about such things making my hay fever worse.

It's well known that those sort of sprays are bad for fish, well, amongst those of us who have fish tanks.

Interestingly, my friend was digging into early research on this pollution/health stuff, not for any medical enlightenment, but because he advises legal companies where they can develop new 'markets'!

Expect a raft of compensation claims in the future, from all those worried mums doing the school run in North London. He is suggesting (hoping?) that it's a bigger market than smoking and workplace injuries.

chucknorris

vivatifosi wrote: »

I paid Halfords £10 to fit the battery on my old car. Worth every penny. They are pretty good for small jobs. I get them to change my car lightbulbs too. DH despairs at me and says I ought to be able to do this myself, but why when I can drive it to someone who will do it better, quicker, and for a tenner or less.

Wouldn't you rather try and do it yourself and save £10, but then break something else while your fitting it yourself, then have to go back to the shop to buy that part too, not to mention getting oil/dirt all over your clothes, and a big argument with your partner about how it should fitted correctly. Ok I agree, well done.

kabayiri

It's as much what they are burning.

Modern woods have resins in them.

I wouldn't have a woodburner personally. The coaching house next door has one , and even though it's not so close, when the wind turns you definitely get the smoke our way.

Generali

kabayiri wrote: »

It's as much what they are burning.

Modern woods have resins in them.

I wouldn't have a woodburner personally. The coaching house next door has one , and even though it's not so close, when the wind turns you definitely get the smoke our way.

Is that because they aren't seasoned properly or is it because they are different in some other way? A mate in the UK has a wood burner and it doesn't seem to spit and crackle like many a pub open fire. I wonder if that's because the burner is efficient or because he burns well seasoned and stored wood or something else. He generally burns wood from trees that are being routinely cut back in a special way that I can't recall.

The Daily Mail seems determined to categorise every single object in the known universe into things that cause and cure cancer.

kabayiri

Generali wrote: »

Is that because they aren't seasoned properly or is it because they are different in some other way? A mate in the UK has a wood burner and it doesn't seem to spit and crackle like many a pub open fire. I wonder if that's because the burner is efficient or because he burns well seasoned and stored wood or something else. He generally burns wood from trees that are being routinely cut back in a special way that I can't recall.

The Daily Mail seems determined to categorise every single object in the known universe into things that cause and cure cancer.

Modern wood is generally not that good. If you burn wood from trees, then you really need to dry it out for quite a long time.

The other problem with resins in wood is it coats the chimney lining and increases the chance of chimney fires.

I'm a hypocrite by the way; talking about air pollution and yet we have 2 diesel cars here!

ivyleaf

Spirit wrote: »

Once again science and research brings hope.
http://www.sciencealert.com/new-alzheimer-s-treatment-fully-restores-memory-function?utm_source=Article&utm_medium=Website&utm_campaign=InArticleReadMore

Wow, that sounds amazing Hopefully it'll work on humans too! I'd volunteer to try it if I'd been diagnosed, certainly!


ETA Sue, that's wonderful and certainly made me cry, bless him

Generali

Spirit wrote: »

Once again science and research brings hope.
http://www.sciencealert.com/new-alzheimer-s-treatment-fully-restores-memory-function?utm_source=Article&utm_medium=Website&utm_campaign=InArticleReadMore

Without wishing to sound too grumpy, Old Pa Generali spent 10 years dying of Alzheimer's and I reckon dear Old Ma Generali got a phone call or an email most months putting her attention towards a cure.

Old Pa Generali has been cremated and a tree is growing very well on him and has been for the best part of another decade and still we have no cure and no real drug to ameliorate the symptoms apart from a couple of chemical coshes to try to stop patients getting violent.

One day I am sure we will cure Alzheimer's and other sorts of dementia. I can guarantee that year won't be 201x and in about 2 years I'll be able to be fairly sure that it won't be 202x too.

Proof of concept on an animal is at the very, very minimum $1,000,000,000 and a decade away from a marketable drug.