TheManInThePub

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by TheManInThePub 5y ago
What an inane response. Perhaps I can counter with Alcohol -> Cancer. Safe amount = 0. Alcohol content of fresh bread > 0
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by TheManInThePub 5y ago
> Because there is no safe level of exposure to asbestos. I think we are getting to the bottom of this :-) The UK Health and Safety Executive state... "The control limit for asbestos is 0.1 asbestos fibres per cubic centimetre of ai
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by TheManInThePub 5y ago
If people could explain why they are down voting honest questions I would appreciate it. I've never heard of claimed talc-cancer links in the UK.
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by TheManInThePub 5y ago
Cyanide occurs naturally in apple cores. It is the dose that makes the poison. The UK links I have cited say the low levels are not an issue. I've genuinely asked what evidence the US courts are using and I appear to have come up again
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by TheManInThePub 5y ago
> sometimes tested positive for small amounts of asbestos And the question I have asked is where is the evidence that such small quantities are a risk? The UK links I have posted suggest otherwise. This is why I am asking. I'm puzzl
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by TheManInThePub 5y ago
Thank you for being the first person to post an informative reply rather than down voting a question. HN is turning into reddit. > I'm not sure how you could believe Though this is unnecessarily insulting. > the people who unknow
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by TheManInThePub 5y ago
> It seems that most talc doesn't cause cancer -- but some talc has "rather high" amounts of asbestos in it -- which we know causes cancer. So no evidence, just suspicion? I must be blunt and say this has left me more puzz
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by TheManInThePub 5y ago
> Johnson and Johnson - which just payed out on a case relating to cancer from baby-powders I asked this question in another post and did not get a reply. The US links sited state no evidence for talc causing cancer. A search of the NHS
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by TheManInThePub 5y ago
*sigh* Here we go again. The GDPR has no problem AT ALL with cookies. Use as many as you like with no need for popups. However, if you are using cookies to track or personally identify me (advertisers take a bow), then you need to ask my pe
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by TheManInThePub 5y ago
White Tie is formal dress; attending opera, meeting royalty, heads of state and the like. Gentlemen wear tailcoat (with medals), shirt with winged collar and white bow tie, or military dress uniform. Black Tie ("Tuxedo" to use the
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by TheManInThePub 5y ago
> It took another fifty years for the definition of a gentlemen to change to exclude people who got roaring drunk and pissed in the fireplace in the name of hospitality. On the contrary, providing the above is done with panache it would
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by TheManInThePub 5y ago
> Can you recommend a chair No. I'm going against the grain of most replies here. It isn't a specific chair you need (perfectly good, bog standard office chairs are fully adjustable and ten a penny) but to instead take regular
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by TheManInThePub 5y ago
> I truly wonder why people still believe they have any privacy, any right to privacy, or, that they could do anything about it. The GDPR (very good legislation forming one of our rights to privacy), and a host of UK/Europe national
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by TheManInThePub 5y ago
> It’s increased regulation around a subject that I was not doing in the first place Maybe you were handling personal data correctly. Very many were not (witness numerous data breaches and private data exploited that was held for no reas
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by TheManInThePub 5y ago
> sold talcum powder that caused cancer Ummm Your link contained no evidence for this. A search of the NHS website also suggests no clear evidence [1]. Cancer Research (a respected UK charity) give a layman's summary (albeit focusin
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by TheManInThePub 5y ago
*sigh* Here we go again. The GDPR has no problem AT ALL with cookies. Use as many as you like with no need for popups. However, if you are using cookies to track or personally identify me, then you need to ask my permission to do so. And so
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by TheManInThePub 5y ago
The censorship you refer to happend 30-40 years ago under Thatcher [1]. Sense prevailed and these were promptly overturned. I'm not sure what mentioning such old events brings to the conversation, any more than a discussion of modern U
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by TheManInThePub 5y ago
Last I checked, pantomimes show no sign of becoming unpopular in Britain :-)
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by TheManInThePub 5y ago
> Dunno how english Big Ben is. It was built in a made-up architectural style Ummmm Big Ben is the bell in the Elizabeth Tower. It was made in the Whitechapel bell foundry and could not be more English! > a woman struggles through sex
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by TheManInThePub 5y ago
> Double-entendres are as English as Big Ben. Undoubtedly. Its probably also worth pointing out to our American audience that the beauty of double entendres is that any "blue" meaning is clearly in the mind of those hearing the
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by TheManInThePub 5y ago
As I said below.... double entendres, very common in Britain, appear to cause those in the West Coast US to panic for fear of being perceived sexist. In Britain (home of the panto [1]), we just smile childishly...... and maybe add a 'f
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by TheManInThePub 5y ago
> whether the name “Miss Shilling’s orifice” is supposed to be a dirty joke or not. You are clearly not British, otherwise you would recognise the rule that no entendre must be left un-doubled. Amusingly, double entendres, common in Brit
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by TheManInThePub 5y ago
> Nazism is fundamentally evil. Be careful with such statements. Describing something/someone as "fundamentally" evil obscures the fact that things (like extremist politics) happen for reasons. It is these reasons that if
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by TheManInThePub 5y ago
You appear to have casually dismissed research scientists [*wave*], healthcare professionals, teachers, artists and many others who entered their field not for the money, but to do a 'thing' that benefits society. Not everybody on
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by TheManInThePub 5y ago
I confess my first thought was mixing oxygen in a methane environment inside the body isn't ideal. And this isn't a joke..... for example, cyclopropane is an excellent anaesthetic gas but no longer used due to the explosion risk.
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by TheManInThePub 5y ago
> I am looking forward to the English getting the same treatment What a truly vile statement, unworthy of HN. Roughly half the English population (including myself) voted to remain. We are not gloating, but working hard to ensure coopera
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by TheManInThePub 5y ago
> This is government policy and it is popular Be very careful with such a statement. Regardless of where you sit on the issue, the Brexit referendum was roughly 50:50. The UK is fiercely split [1] and such issues are not going to be reso
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by TheManInThePub 5y ago
Loosing 4 seconds per day (28 per week) falls within the bounds of accuracy required of a Swiss certified mechanical chronometer and is pretty good. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COSC [I made a similar comment further
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by TheManInThePub 5y ago
> My Omega Seamaster gains ~2-3 minutes a month (so roughly 4-6 seconds a day.) That falls within the bounds of accuracy required of a Swiss certified mechanical chronometer (that is to say, a clock accurate enough for marine celestial n
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by TheManInThePub 5y ago
I don't understand. Please can you tell us what benefits an internet enabled *toothbrush* provides? Is somebody from SV seriously going to come along and tell us this enhances their life?

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