I agree, but playing devil's advocate on the smoking point, smokers will tell you it's quite effective for short term stress relief. Doctors will...
That's the problem with statistics. Actually not with statistics, but with the interpretation of statistics.I'm not sure if more cyclists die in...
Can you elaborate? I'm not convinced many people choose to need medical help.Funny story. I do martial arts for fun and fitness (or I did til...
That plain white paper now is non porous, basically like greaseproof. Unless you get different stuff in your neck of the woods.
I remember the awful greaseproof bags. They were nasty.Before that, all our local chippies used to put a tiny, almost pointless piece of grease...
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Fish and chip shops are traps for people over 45.See, when I was a kid, anything from the chippy was nice. Invariably it was fried in beef...
That's interesting. Histamine is released as part of the immune response as I understand it. Antihistamine, again as far as I understand and I...
I think my wife just keeps me as a pet, for her own amusement. I'm an accessory. I enable her to join in conversations with her her friends about...
111 persuaded me to go to A&E today. I didn't want to, and didn't think I needed to. But I'm not the medical expert, so I did as I was told.It...
A good starting point would be to change how government contracts work. It's a long time since I worked for a company that was executing a...
If the house is unfit for purpose because it's on fire, the solution is not to build an extension on it.Step 1. Identify the top one or two of...
I don't think people are criticising the people in the NHS. The NHS is just a good litmus test of how effectively state services have been run,...
I felt very well looked after when I was going through my situation that started at the back end of 2022. I was initially completely and utterly...
Scaling up the NHS is not the answer in my opinion. Years ago we had the GP, or we had A&E and the ambulance service. It seems to work.Since...
I hear you. But the stupidly high prices depend on where and what.When I bought my house, already well into my 30s before I got on the ladder, I...
That's why nobody can afford anything these days.I had this debate recently with a youngster at work, who like many youngsters these days, is...
It really is grim here.When we were in Spain on our holidays last year, I realised just how depressing British supermarkets are when we called...
In modern Britain, it's a wonder there's anyone that ISN'T sick.Schools have sold off most of their outdoor space. They don't really need it...
I agree with you.I said something similar a few pages ago. Politicians of all colours boast about how much they spend or would spend, as if...
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