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It is exciting, but when you really think about it, its quite obscene too. Yes, I’m rolling out the ‘cost’ argument again. I feel uncomfortable knowing that the government are funding the Olympics at huge expense and at the same time refusing some women Herceptin which could prolong their lives, give them more time with their kids and now this…[Read more]

Simply reading a poem and trying to understand it is ‘analysing’, don’t you think? We can never really know what another person is thinking or trying to say because we can’t actually get ‘into’ their head and feel what they are feeling-we can only guess with our ‘theory of mind’. So a would-be poet has to interpret what they are feeling into…[Read more]

Have you ever gotten a friend to do a true blind test upon you jen_jen? By that I mean get one ‘natural’ product and another standard cosmetic most people use and then apply them to you so you don’t know which is which and see what happens?

One of my friend’s husband has a ‘mysterious illness’ that nobody can put a finger and one that has had…[Read more]

I see. But if personal interpretation is what its all about then what’s the point of somebody carefully crafting a poem about the death of their favourite cat only to have a reader interpret it as meaning the decline in Western moral standards or something? The role of the author becomes meaningless unless what the author wants conveying is conv…[Read more]

So what constitutes ‘natural’ and ‘non-chemical’ for you, jen_jen? Bodyshop products, for example are supposed to be ‘natural’ but have you read the ingredients on the side of their shampoo for example? Chemical after chemical. Water is a naturally occuring chemical, so is lanolin or sunflower oil or Evening Primrose oil and morphine and…[Read more]

I’m looking forward to the Olympics but I’ll be staying firmly at home and watching it on TV! I went to the Commonwealth Games in Manchester a few years back to watch some of my favourite events but was so disappointed because the views were naturally from one angle so you often missed the full glory of a vault, a particularly good floor exercise…[Read more]

I suppose you have to think, ‘Make up has been around for a long time and there seems to be no decreased incidence of cancer in those that don’t use it (men)’. Or perhaps we should all be for animal testing of everything that comes near us? :shock: Or perhaps we should like like people did 6000 years ago. I think I’ll just carry on doing what I,…[Read more]

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Thanks for the welcome Will.

Nicotine is a bit of an exception to the rule, but the concentrations of nicotine in the patches has to be really high to get a therapeutic dose into the system. The gums and inhalers are much more effective and controllable. Those Ibuleve gels you can buy, to rub onto joints are rubbish at controlling pain until…[Read more]

And there’s even more mercury in the fillings of your teeth, leaching out constantly and sea fish that you eat….

That’s not true. You skin is a very effective barrier to almost everything. If it were true wouldn’t needn’t inject medication like insulin into diabetics, we could seemly smear it onto them!

There’s an awful lot of cods wallop talked about carcinogens and chemicals in our environment. Strawberry jam could cause cancer if it were rubbed into…[Read more]

A vaccine works by making you body recognise a threatening bacteria or virus. So a small amount of the dead nasty virus/bacteria is injected into you (dead so it can’t harm you) and your body ‘raises antibodies’ to the nasty bugs making it instantly recognisable to the body’s immune system in future. So if you should inadvertently become exposed…[Read more]