The Random thought thread

[Bruce Tuncks]

AND the dentist used to use amalgam for teeth fillings. They denied that there was any transfer of lead out from the amalgam, but I have my doubts, and offer my increasing stupidity as a proof.

[pmccarthy]

It was mercury in the amalgam, not lead. Probably much worse!

[old man emu]

It's a wonder that Baby Boomers are not as mad as hatters. No Fluoride in the water and plenty of sweets + hole in the teeth filled with mercury.

 

 Mad Hatter disease:  In the 19th century, fur treated with mercury was used to make felt hats. Hatters were confined in small spaces and breathed toxic mercury fumes, resulting in “mad” or irrational behavior.

[facthunter]

You'll get mercury from high food chain predators in the sea. Lead from Broken Hill, older exterior metal paint and battery making. Nev

[spacesailor]

AND !.

Battery Recycling. 

But

Sulphuric acid fumes burnout the lungs far quicker than mercury / lead poisoning. 

spacesailor

[Jerry_Atrick]

I really must get better at proof reading and not leave it to the spell-checker (for some reason doesn't work on this version of Firefox)...

 

An email I sent out yesterday had everyone in stitches.. It started with:

Fear All,

 

 

(and that is not the first time I have done that). But even more embarrassingly, I ended it with:

Kind Retards,

 

 

 

 

[rgmwa]

Sounds quite reasonable to me.

 

[nomadpete]

9 hours ago, Jerry_Atrick said:

I really must get better at proof reading and not leave it to the spell-checker (for some reason doesn't work on this version of Firefox)...

 

An email I sent out yesterday had everyone in stitches.. It started with:

Fear All,

 

 

(and that is not the first time I have done that). But even more embarrassingly, I ended it with:

Kind Retards,

 

 

 

 

Amazing!

Did you really make only two mistakes?

[old man emu]

1 hour ago, nomadpete said:

Amazing!

Did you really make only two mistakes?

Didn't you know that he has got himself a new keyboard?

[Bruce Tuncks]

You guys are right about it being mercury in the amalgam. Gosh, this proves it I reckon, that is about how it makes you stupid.

There was an experiment where they gave sheep fillings and later discovered that mercury was in the carcase. The dentists who used the stuff poo-pooed this experiment of course. They said how sheep were totally different.

Personally, since I have got to know sheep better, I reckon that I understand investors better too as they act just like sheep. Electors too, maybe.

 

[red750]

Recent discussions on this thread take me back about thirty years. For a couple of months I was a telemarketer and worked for a business marketing and installing safety switches. Yes, I was one of those pesky buggers who ring you in the early evening to flog you stuff you didn't know you needed. As I said, only for a couple of months, but when your employer merges with another company and you are one of the surplus staff no longer needed, you have to find some way to put dinner on the table for your family.

[Jerry_Atrick]

1 hour ago, red750 said:

but when your employer merges with another company and you are one of the surplus staff no longer needed, you have to find some way to put dinner on the table for your family.

I gave your post a like because of this.. A lot of people forget that the fellas on the other side of the line are doing the same thing.. they are not the "masterminds" (aka psychopaths)  who are raking in the money.

Edited November 17, 2023 by Jerry_Atrick

[spacesailor]

" dentist po posed the results "

Just like the ' fluoride test  ' , "  Medicated without your permision " . 

AND my G,GRAND-kids still have ' mouths full of cavaties ' .

It must be all the ' fruit. Acid '  they eat . The proponents will find some obscure reason why it didn't work..

spacesailor

 

[red750]

Just spent an hour and a half at our local church/school fete, half of which was pent in the queue for a hamburger. Put HJ's and Macca's to shame. Crowds everywhere, and parking in the adjacent railway station carpark was almost impossible to get. This is one of the largest fetes in Melbourne. Here are a few photos.

 

 

A performance by the students                    The queue to the hambuger stall

                                                                        which snakes like the check-in

                                                                         queue at the airport.

 

             

 

Amusements                                                                   This is less than a quarter of

                                                                                         the parking.

 

        

 

[facthunter]

Obviously not the Fete worse than death.  It can be IF you win a plaster Gnome early in the day. Nev

[Jerry_Atrick]

9 hours ago, red750 said:

Put HJ's and Macca's to shame.

Seriously, it doesn't take much to put those two to shame.

[onetrack]

I think Peter was referring to the length of the queue, which is a pretty poor indication of peoples food choices. I'm staggered at the number of people I see lining up at Macca's and HJ's in the early morning!

[facthunter]

Has to be a result of laziness and lack of imagination How long does it take to get a slice of bread toasted and make a small  omelette and a cup of coffee?  Nev

[red750]

In this case, it is a double benefit, making a donation (to the school), or at McHappy Day, to Ronald McDonald House at kids hospitals, and getting lunch. The fete burger had the usual lettuce, tomato, onion, sauce etc, but also bacon and egg. It looked like the TV image of Macca's and HJ's, not the small compressed burgers you get from the shop.

[nomadpete]

52 minutes ago, onetrack said:

. I'm staggered at the number of people I see lining up at Macca's and HJ's in the early morning!

Not only the food choices with associated long term health impacts....

 

Amidst the cries of housing unaffordability,  I see queues of tradies and office workers lining up for shop made coffee, three or more times a day.

Do they not realise that is simply wasting money?

 

If the working couple do this coffee stunt five times a week, they are wasting about 5 x 6 x $5 = $150 every week?

 

And that's not counting the lunches and smoko waste.

[Jerry_Atrick]

One of the most depressing sights I saw was in San Franscisco. I arrived early from London, and whilst waiting for the hotel to allow me to check in, decided to saunter to the local Maccas for some breakfast, not knowing other options at the time. It was a sad place, bereft of any character and the smell was more like that of bottles of cleaning chemicals, despite them coming from the food. There were a couple of rather obsese familieis chomping through that crap, looking rather forlorn and resigned to their feedlot status in life. I decided to wait for the hotel to allow me to check in, and wasted time walking around the city.

[old man emu]

I've changed my eating habits over the past year or so. Definitely eating less and the lack of access to fast food outlets helps. However, if I am away from home either on a trip buying supplies, both edible and constructable, or en route to visit the fruit of my loins,  I will seek out a hasty-tasty provider. However, the first consideration for the impecunious is cost,and the value for money associated with it.

 

I find that a Macca's Happy Meal or a HJ's Stunner meal are actually quite large intakes, although under $5.00. An alternative is a Subway 6" roll, slightly more expensive but you can see the fresh fillings before you buy. My latest experience was a HJ's chicken burger, on its own, accompanied by a pensioner's free coffee. My prior healthy diet allowed me to whisk away the coffee from the pensioner before he knew it was a target. 

[Jerry_Atrick]

The human psyche is weird (either that or I am - which is also probably, true). A discussion in the village pub where someone made an assertion of the Conservatives here, which was blatantly untrue. After that person was educated by virtually everyone on the table about how untrue his assertion was with facts (that everyone verified with their phones), he conceded that his assertion was wrong, but he believed it anyway. I kid you not. Yet, he hates Trump!

 

The collective exasperation from others at the table was perecptible from space. Connfirmation bias at its best.

[nomadpete]

Unfortunately  evolution only rewards the creatures that survive (by any means) and breed.

Evolution doesn't reward intelligence unless it leads to the above.

 

People such as you describe are living proof of evolution.

[spenaroo]

20 hours ago, nomadpete said:

Not only the food choices with associated long term health impacts....

 

Amidst the cries of housing unaffordability,  I see queues of tradies and office workers lining up for shop made coffee, three or more times a day.

Do they not realise that is simply wasting money?

 

If the working couple do this coffee stunt five times a week, they are wasting about 5 x 6 x $5 = $150 every week?

 

And that's not counting the lunches and smoko waste.

I do it with hot chocolate,
got nothing to do with the drink - its a socially acceptable break.

no one questions you if you say your stepping out for a coffee.

 

the healthier alternative would be I'm stepping out to put on music and walk for 10 mins....

but that isn't  normally accepted working behavior

same reason you see nurses out the front of a hospital smoking - despite knowing and seeing all the effects daily

Edited November 19, 2023 by spenaroo