From: Peter Ceresole on 23 Apr 2010 12:31 chris <ithinkiam(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Clearly, vegetarianism is a spectrum of 'conditions' ;) Ah? So someone can have a Vegan Spectrum Disorder? -- Peter
From: Adrian Tuddenham on 22 Apr 2010 08:29 Bella Jones <me9(a)privacy.net> wrote: > Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > > Bella Jones <me9(a)privacy.net> wrote: > > > > > > > I will never forget an item in Popbitch several years ago, about Geri > > > > > Halliwell having colonic irrigation,... [...] >but my search ... threw up nothing. You must have a strong stomach. -- ~ Adrian Tuddenham ~ (Remove the ".invalid"s and add ".co.uk" to reply) www.poppyrecords.co.uk
From: Phil Taylor on 23 Apr 2010 14:08 In article <1242088180293723779.090362me18-privacy.net(a)news.individual.net>, zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote: > Bella Jones <me9(a)privacy.net> wrote: > > Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 09:48:37 +0100, peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid (Pd) > > > wrote: > > > > > > >Bella Jones <me9(a)privacy.net> wrote: > > > > > > > >> Ooh, I came over all allergic earlier, for the second time this > > > > > week, > > > >> but worse. Had some chorizo - mouth went numb, flushed face, > > > > > stuffy > > > >> nose, and headache. Got Piriton on the way to pub. > > > >> > > > >> Could that be sulphites, or MSG? > > > > > > > >Salmonella. > > > > > > Very different symptoms! Squirting in all directions, mostly. > > > > That's what I thought. This was an allergy. Same kind of feeling as > > you > > get after a really nasty glass of red wine. > > > > In the interests of science you could test whether it was either MSG or > sulphites by trying something with them in. Pass on the nasty red wine, > of course - I don't know what else has sulphites in - but MSG is in a > lot of foods; soy sauce, for example. Actually it looks like a classic allergic reaction, in which case neither sulphites nor MSG will be the cause - they are too small molecules to trigger allergy (although they might make you ill for other reasons). Do you have any known allergies, Bella? In my case, I know that I am grossly allergic to rats, and if something like that happened to me I would suspect that the chorizo was contaminated with rat hair or faeces (yuk). Phil Taylor
From: Geoff Berrow on 21 Apr 2010 05:11 On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:00:09 +0100, Bruce Horrocks <07.013(a)scorecrow.com> wrote: >There're a lot of handbags flying at the moment. I earnestly believe you could be right... >Can we all take a slow >count to ten, please? Then throw? -- Geoff Berrow (Put thecat out to email) It's only Usenet, no one dies. My opinions, not the committee's, mine. Simple RFDs www.4theweb.co.uk/rfdmaker
From: Bella Jones on 21 Apr 2010 06:33
Bruce Horrocks <07.013(a)scorecrow.com> wrote: > There're a lot of handbags flying at the moment. Can we all take a slow > count to ten, please? Perhaps we should all decamp to the crisps newsgroup. -- bellajonez at yahoo dot co dot uk |