Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 4]

[thismonkeyhere]

SpeckledJim said:

or Liverpool

[Promised Land]

SpeckledJim said:

Surely you've been in the park, or a concert, or Liverpool, and got a waft of it and wondered what it was?

It's a very unique smell and carries miles on the wind.

But if he doesn't know what to relate the smell to how will he have smelt it?

Probably just thought he was a very smelly bloke in the boozer.

[Lazadude]

When driving in traffic, I sometimes gets wafts of it, or certain places stink of it. It is a very very distinctive smell.

[droopsnoot]

That's just it - I might have smelt it, but I can't say I know that I have. I have smelt all sorts of things - as we all do - and there's probably loads that I wouldn't recognise. I'm fairly close to open countryside, and there are lots of smells where I would just think of them as "countryside", where others might say one is horse manure, another is silage, another is cow muck (and those are just examples, before anyone explains that there are massive differences between two or more of those examples).

Now, can I tell the difference between the smell of engine oil and EP gearbox oil? Yes.

[glenrobbo]

"Excuse me Miss! Does this smell like chloroform to you?"

[Brother D]

SpeckledJim said:

berlintaxi said:

SpeckledJim said:

(as an aside, the fact that a truckful of landed US beef is £50,000 cheaper than EU beef is a bloody good reason to be out, IMO )

As long as you like your beef injected with every kind of growth hormone and god knows what.
Wonder why instances of food poisoning are nearly 10 times higher in the US than the UK.

We'll be able to choose UK or European beef as well, if that's preferred. If people don't want US beef, then it won't be worth trying to sell it. I'll buy it though, it's very good in my limited experience.

WRT USA food poisoning rates, if it's true, I'd guess it's more likely to do with very poor, poorly educated people in hot climates eating food that should really have been binned, than it is to do with growth hormones fed to cows that have been recently converted into fresh, safely refrigerated beef. Happy to be corrected though.

The US meat products that we class unfit for human consumption or contain carcinogenic chemicals are sold to the US public. One part of any new trade agreement with the US includes that UK is required to accept chlorinated chicken for example.

Linky https://iegpolicy.agribusinessintelligence.informa...

[Dr Jekyll]

Brother D said:

The US meat products that we class unfit for human consumption or contain carcinogenic chemicals are sold to the US public. One part of any new trade agreement with the US includes that UK is required to accept chlorinated chicken for example.

Linky https://iegpolicy.agribusinessintelligence.informa...

Chlorinated chicken is neither unfit for human consumption nor carcinogenic.

[SpeckledJim]

Dr Jekyll said:

Brother D said:

The US meat products that we class unfit for human consumption or contain carcinogenic chemicals are sold to the US public. One part of any new trade agreement with the US includes that UK is required to accept chlorinated chicken for example.

Linky https://iegpolicy.agribusinessintelligence.informa...

Chlorinated chicken is neither unfit for human consumption nor carcinogenic.

Quite. The EU agency that measures these these things even admits there's no additional risk to it. It's just a different way to achieve the same standards.

We already eat chlorinated salad. EU says that's fine.

Almost everything everywhere is agenda-led bks and we can't trust most of the media to give us more than the half of the story they want to push.

Edited by SpeckledJim on Friday 8th February 14:11

[StevieBee]

SpeckledJim said:

Almost everything everywhere is agenda-led bks and we can't trust most of the media to give us more than the half of the story they want to push.

Yep!

Yet the numbers that choose to accept the media as absolute fact is startling.

[DocJock]

SpeckledJim said:

Dr Jekyll said:

Brother D said:

The US meat products that we class unfit for human consumption or contain carcinogenic chemicals are sold to the US public. One part of any new trade agreement with the US includes that UK is required to accept chlorinated chicken for example.

Linky https://iegpolicy.agribusinessintelligence.informa...

Chlorinated chicken is neither unfit for human consumption nor carcinogenic.

Quite. The EU agency that measures these these things even admits there's no additional risk to it. It's just a different way to achieve the same standards.

We already eat chlorinated salad. EU says that's fine.

Almost everything everywhere is agenda-led bks and we can't trust most of the media to give us more than the half of the story they want to push.

[footnote]
We also chlorinate all of our tapwater.

[SpeckledJim]

DocJock said:

SpeckledJim said:

Dr Jekyll said:

Brother D said:

The US meat products that we class unfit for human consumption or contain carcinogenic chemicals are sold to the US public. One part of any new trade agreement with the US includes that UK is required to accept chlorinated chicken for example.

Linky https://iegpolicy.agribusinessintelligence.informa...

Chlorinated chicken is neither unfit for human consumption nor carcinogenic.

Quite. The EU agency that measures these these things even admits there's no additional risk to it. It's just a different way to achieve the same standards.

We already eat chlorinated salad. EU says that's fine.

Almost everything everywhere is agenda-led bks and we can't trust most of the media to give us more than the half of the story they want to push.

[footnote]

We also chlorinate all of our tapwater.

I thought that was the case, and then wondered if I was confusing it with Fluoride, so rather than find out, left it out!

[kowalski655]

98elise said:

StevieBee said:

Dr Jekyll said:

Am I the only middle aged bloke, indeed person, who has never taken illegal drugs? Or even come across them, been offered them or seen anyone taking them?

My one and only dalliance was a single joint when I was 20; which I found distinctly underwhelming.

Had a mate who got in to the whole coke thing for about a year during which he turned from a great bloke into the biggest knob imaginable. Not that I was tempted before but this reaffirmed my ambivalence towards trying anything.

Same here. One joint and never bothered since. Drugs don't figure in my life at all.

I know plenty of colleagues that regularly do drugs wilth little if any affect on them personally or at work. All are in well paid highly technical roles.

Same here,53 & never touched drugs,never been offered any either-I must look too boring
Nor smoked, the occasional tipple is all I do

[HTP99]

Watching a couple of horses at the weekend out for a ride on the road got me thinking; horses have metal shoes, if I had metal soles on my shoes I'd easily slip and fall over due to lack of grip, why don't horses fall over and how come they have grip?

[paua]

HTP99 said:

Watching a couple of horses at the weekend out for a ride on the road got me thinking; horses have metal shoes, if I had metal soles on my shoes I'd easily slip and fall over due to lack of grip, why don't horses fall over and how come they have grip?

4 shoe drive, compared to your 2sd.

[SCEtoAUX]

98elise said:

StevieBee said:

Dr Jekyll said:

Am I the only middle aged bloke, indeed person, who has never taken illegal drugs? Or even come across them, been offered them or seen anyone taking them?

My one and only dalliance was a single joint when I was 20; which I found distinctly underwhelming.

Had a mate who got in to the whole coke thing for about a year during which he turned from a great bloke into the biggest knob imaginable. Not that I was tempted before but this reaffirmed my ambivalence towards trying anything.

Same here. One joint and never bothered since. Drugs don't figure in my life at all.

I know plenty of colleagues that regularly do drugs wilth little if any affect on them personally or at work. All are in well paid highly technical roles.

Nope. 55 years old and never remotely tempted. Beer on the other hand...

[HTP99]

SCEtoAUX said:

98elise said:

StevieBee said:

Dr Jekyll said:

Am I the only middle aged bloke, indeed person, who has never taken illegal drugs? Or even come across them, been offered them or seen anyone taking them?

My one and only dalliance was a single joint when I was 20; which I found distinctly underwhelming.

Had a mate who got in to the whole coke thing for about a year during which he turned from a great bloke into the biggest knob imaginable. Not that I was tempted before but this reaffirmed my ambivalence towards trying anything.

Same here. One joint and never bothered since. Drugs don't figure in my life at all.

I know plenty of colleagues that regularly do drugs wilth little if any affect on them personally or at work. All are in well paid highly technical roles.

Nope. 55 years old and never remotely tempted. Beer on the other hand...

Mid 40's, tried 1 joint about 15 years ago and didn't see the fuss!

[V8mate]

Probably deserves a thread of its own now, rather than 10,000 PHers confirming what sheltered lives they've led in this thread.

[Flibble]

HTP99 said:

Watching a couple of horses at the weekend out for a ride on the road got me thinking; horses have metal shoes, if I had metal soles on my shoes I'd easily slip and fall over due to lack of grip, why don't horses fall over and how come they have grip?

They mostly walk on soft stuff that their shoes can sink into a little.

Also I don't think metal soles are as slick as you think. Imagine a metal sole scored like a file, that would grip rather well I'd imagine.

Edited by Flibble on Monday 11th February 08:14

[StevieBee]

Flibble said:

HTP99 said:

Watching a couple of horses at the weekend out for a ride on the road got me thinking; horses have metal shoes, if I had metal soles on my shoes I'd easily slip and fall over due to lack of grip, why don't horses fall over and how come they have grip?

They mostly walk on soft stuff that their shoes can sink into a little.

Also I don't think metal soles are as slick as you think. Imagine a metal sole scored like a file, that would grip rather well I'd imagine.

Edited by Flibble on Monday 11th February 08:14

I'd imagine having four legs helps as well.

[glenrobbo]

StevieBee said:

I'd imagine having four legs helps as well.

It certainly makes them more stable.