Latest Moan From You and Me 2025

I know a lot find funny , but just wait till the summer when I wear boxers in the back garden to garden lol

 

From my perspective, the difference between diet and full sugared fizzy drinks, is whether you’d like your teeth eroded by the acid, or eroded by the acid and rotted as well!
@shiney, I used to recommend that my child patients were given water rather than squash to drink, to try and reduce their risk of tooth decay. It was interesting that those mothers that did make the effort, would report back to me that the child’s behaviour had noticeably improved as well! Those chemicals had more effect than they had realised.

Quite a few years ago, we gave up caffeinated drinks, and after doing that for a while, we noticed bad reactions when we did have a proper coffee. Very hangover like symptoms, and churning stomachs. These days, we only drink caffeinated coffee when we go out (maybe four times a week) and have no trouble with it. Apart from the time I had an extra coffee before a routine check up at the GP surgery ( I thought I’d better make sure I was well hydrated, as instructed, before the blood test) My pulse was all over the place, and scared the nurse into immediately doing an ECG! That was fine, but I’m a bit more careful now what I drink before appointments.

Now we have the added incentive to avoid Coca Cola products while I’m trying to boycott American made goods or companies. In my mind, just because it’s difficult to avoid buying Chinese or American goods and services, doesn’t mean I should just give up. I’ll try my best, and if enough of us did that, it might add up to make a difference, or at least send a message.
Probably explains my failed shopping trip yesterday, didn’t see much I liked anyway, and the few things that appealed were made in China, and rejected. Annoyingly, I didn’t see any American goods to boycott!

 

I'm not suggesting a boycott of anything, rather that it is nearly impossible to not benefit a US company somewhere down the line. The world is all tied in together, so even if we deliberately try to avoid buying from one place, we will likely still be paying them through a back door.

 

I tried to log into an insurance company account about a claim.
Got an e mail saying click here to go to your account, did that then log in,then we have sent a code to your email mail.
Well the link seems to have opened in the same tab as my e mail, by the time I sorted it all out and finally got the code they had locked my insurance.
In the end I did it on my PC.

 

With the drinks thing I think it's all about excessive behaviour, it's the same with food, people just eat and drink too much of these things, one can of coke a day is not going to kill you, drink 5 or 6 and you are overdoing it.
When I was a kid we used to have a couple of bottles of corona a week, maybe a can of shandy occasionally as a treat, now it's just all day everyday.

 

I think we have a bizarre culture. I recently saw this bbc article

Snag clothing gets 100 complaints a day that models are too fat, says boss

It basically says that being thin is something that many aspire to be and therefore it isn't healthy to promote thin models in adverts but it is fine to promote the other end of the scale. I'll let people make up their own minds about which is more damaging.

 

True … but sugar is better for you than any artificial sweetener because your body recognises it as a food stuff and deals with it accordingly. And a 150 ml can of Coke to deal with nausea as and when is certainly better for your body than taking daily prescription medications to achieve the same effect. I know this as I was on some for about 5 yrs in my 30s.

 

I saw that photo and my only thought was “how does she wipe her bottom?”

 

@Ergates Possum was the only child in our social group not allowed coca-cola etc at home or for school snacks. We drank water with meals and she had a small carton of unsweetend apple juice for her morning break and home-made muffins or biscuits. She has no fillings to this day but two of her friends had 9 fillings each at 9 and 7. Their mother henceforth banned sugary drinks and sweets and they grew up with healthy adult teeth.

@Thevictorian boycotts can work. Tesla sales are way down in the EU but also the USA and I've seen a lovely photo of a mexican sculptor "enhancing" a Tesla by dropping a huge, native sculpture on it. EU investment companies are joining up to divest themselves of Tesla shares and Tesla share prices are going thru the floor.

There's also been a campaign to refrain from placing any orders thru Amazon so Bezos will have less money to spend on his space ambitions.

Apparently Trump isn't too happy about a Tesla ban but then he's a serial bankrupt with no morals.

 

If you go for a walk in the countryside, please leave gate's as you find them, ie, if open leave open, if closed leave closed + if they are chained up make sure you chain them back up as you found them thankyou, i keep an eye open on a road side gate going in to fields but i'm finding this week lots of people are not shuting the gate you may think that there isn't an cattle or sheep in the fields but they may be and you can't see them because them may be runing 5-6 fields in this case there are cattle runing 3 feilds and 4 times this week i have had the go and shut the gate to stop cattle from getting onto the road

 

@ViewAhead, certainly worth having the little can of coke rather than medication, much of which lists sucrose on the list of ingredients anyway. The problem with sugars and teeth is not the quantity, it’s the frequency. One spoonful of sugar an hour for 8 hours will do 8 times the damage that 16 spoonfuls eaten at once will do! Saliva will neutralise the acidity in the mouth within an hour. Obviously not the same for the effects of excessive sugar on the rest of the body, when quantity will definitely count.

@Obelix-Vendée, we were really strict with our children when they were young. Both now in their 40s, daughter has no fillings and son only has one tiny one. It was certainly an incentive to me to ensure they had a good diet, as I was spending quite a bit of my working hours referring under 8s, even under 3s, to have full clearances under general anaesthetic. Heartbreaking.

@shiney, we don’t use any apps for banking either, and only do any financial transactions, including ordering things, on the home computer, not even on our iPads. Recently, when logging into the bank, I’ve had to complete an extra step by having a code sent to my phone. Each time, I am then asked if I would like to make the computer a ‘trusted device’ so I don’t have to go through that additional step in future. I’ve declined that so far, no hassle to me to make it more difficult for anyone else to access the account.