Did you know?

[Doris]

Did you know...

in Canada they use canine disposable nappies on their puppies when it's too cold to put them outside for a 'wee walk'?

... and when they travel with them in their car?

There's a niche for an entrepreneur!

 

[noirua]

Did you know...

in Canada they use canine disposable nappies on their puppies when it's too cold to put them outside for a 'wee walk'?... and when they travel with them in their car?
There's a niche for an entrepreneur!

All very good. You could get Joe Blow to sell them on ASF along with the books. They could be marketed as " Canine knickers by Doris".

I stayed on sixth line in Ontario for a few years. I got in a lift to the underground car park, drove to work and parked in the underground car park, got the lift up to the office. Temperatures down to minus 20 deg C were just too much.

 

[noirua]

Columbian President Alvara Uribe, speaking at the "Anti-drugs summit of Latin America", last week, said that the US should give longer prison sentences to drug trafficers extradited from his country. A rare rebuke of such a strong ally, who have been reducing sentences for information.

 

[noirua]

Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who exposed Stalin's prison system in his novels and spent 20 years in exile, has died near Moscow at the age of 89.

The author of the Gulag Archipelago and One day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, who returned to Russia in 1994, died of either a stroke or heart failure.

The Nobel Laureate had suffered from high blood pressure in recent years.

After returning to Russia, Solzhenitsyn wrote several polemics on Russian history and identity.

 

[noirua]

... that the following are basic signs of a heart attack: The signs can vary from person to person but common ones include Central Chest Pain, a pain which spreads to the arms, neck and jaw, and feeling sick, sweaty or short of breath accompanied by pain.

 

[noirua]

..that the Anglo-Swiss miner Xstrata have bid US$10 billion in cash for the Anglo-African Platinum miner Lonmin, today.
Lonmin shares jumped 47% on the news.

 

[noirua]

...one of the commonist forms of neck pain is caused by incorrect posture whilst using a keyboard for prolonged periods.

 

[Wysiwyg]

...one of the commonist forms of neck pain is caused by incorrect posture whilst using a keyboard for prolonged periods.

Gee noirua, you`re going to have to learn to type without looking at the keyboard matey.

 

[noirua]

...that Andrea Pininfarina, head of a world-famous Italian car design group, has been killed in a road accident.

Mr Pininfarina was riding a scooter which was hit by a car on the outskirts of Turin early on Thursday. He was 51.

He was chief executive officer of the family firm Pininfarina, which has designed sports cars for Ferrari, Maserati, Volvo and Fiat.

Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and Ferrari's Luca Cordero di Montezemolo were among those paying tribute.

 

[noirua]

...that some hand gels used in hospital have as much as 70% alchohol content. Some of this is now being stolen and used by alchoholics who are in hard times.

 

[noirua]

...cornflour eats grease.

 

[noirua]

...that more damage is done to teeth by brushing them than by not doing so. Acid is high in most fruits, fruit drinks and fizzy drinks, and brushing them a few hours afterwards will damage the enamel.

 

[Happy]

...cornflour eats grease.

Can this be significant in diet?

 

[noirua]

Can this be significant in diet?

Hi Happy, It is supposed to be used in cleaning up grease from surfaces. I saw it on a TV programme where they were cleaning up people's homes that had been allowed to get in a mess.

 

[Happy]

It is supposed to be used in cleaning up grease from surfaces.

Thanks Noirua,
Come to think about it we could have: Handy Hints thread too.

 

[Julia]

...that more damage is done to teeth by brushing them than by not doing so. Acid is high in most fruits, fruit drinks and fizzy drinks, and brushing them a few hours afterwards will damage the enamel.

This can be prevented by thoroughly rinsing the mouth with fresh water immediately after consuming fruits, juices and fizzy drinks. Makes sense.
Stops the acid from etching into the enamel.

 

[Happy]

This can be prevented by thoroughly rinsing the mouth with fresh water immediately after consuming fruits, juices and fizzy drinks. Makes sense.
Stops the acid from etching into the enamel.

To neutralise acid it tempting to think that something alkaline could be used, question is what and how much not to go the other way

 

[noirua]

...that UK former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is suffering from senile dementia.

 

[noirua]

This can be prevented by thoroughly rinsing the mouth with fresh water immediately after consuming fruits, juices and fizzy drinks. Makes sense.
Stops the acid from etching into the enamel.

Quite a lot of acids affect teeth, not sure if water is good enough: Ascorbic, carbonic, citric, folic, oxalic, phosphoric, soda, stomach and tannic acid.

 

[noirua]

The rock hyrax, a rodent, is the elephants closest living relative.