shamrock09

A plethora of negative comments as usual. When I got married all "journalistic" facts were way off base. Perhaps, the same is true here.

I lived in Bahrain from 1978 to 1985. This was during the time of the downfall of the Shah in Iran and the coming to power of Ayatollah Khomeini. Iran claims Bahrain as a part of its territory. The Shia are the majority and so there were nightly riots in in the Suq which were ruthlessly suppressed. You could see the blood stains the next morning and people regularly disappeared. There was even a supposed attempted coup, which gave the authorities and their British advisors an excuse for further crackdowns. It seems nothing has changed. When I left Bahrain the population was circa 260,000 when I revisited in 2016 it had increased to 1.8 million. This was not due to an explosion in the birth rate but by a deliberate immigration policy that was designed to diminish Shia dominance. What a shame nothing has changed! 

Absolutely fine but no alcohol.

No bad thing. The Russians all brought booze mixed with Coke and got very noisy before dinner. However, once dinner was served all was quiet.

Nothing wrong with the placebo effect. More powerful than many pharmaceutical drugs! You know Viagra is only 37% effective and it is the most effective of all pharmaceutical medications?

Aren't Arabs Semites too?  

Definition of Semite

This is the height of Summer in the Arctic so it is not surprising the ice is melting. If they want to see Winter they should have gone to the Antartic! However, the accumulation of plastic and other rubbish is truly distressing. This is the real problem and not politically sponsored global warming.

My MGBGT never leaked but it broke down constantly. To such an extent that the AA used to say "Oh, it's you again!"  I took delivery of a Morgan in 1980 after a five-year wait. It leaked like a sieve. The first flooding happened as I drove away from the factory in Malvern and the skies opened up with a deluge. I didn't bother taking it back as  I bought it to re-sell and that didn't work out too well, either.

20 minutes ago, RuamRudy said:

Something fundamental has to change in how we govern the UK. Socialism may be bad, but what we have now is truly evil. The completely unnecessary indignities that many face on a daily basis are just the tip of the iceberg. People are dying every day because of austerity, while the rich friends and donors of the Tory party continue to quaff their champagne, snort their cocaine and offshore their money like it's the 1980s all over again.

 

The UK has become more crap, more run down, more feral by the day - and all because of Tory ideology. And all we hear is that the left is bad? What will it take for you people to wake up?

I quite agree!

The degree of cynicism I see when I read these replies fills me with despair. What is wrong with you people? Every Sunday foreigners go and clean beaches in Samui, why not join them?

Cereal, 6000 hours for a first officer is quite a lot of flying hours. How do you get these hours? Obviously, you work for a smaller carrier with less restrictive hiring requirements and build up the hours before making a jump to a major carrier. British Airways used to have its own flight school at Hamble. Nobody gained 6000 hours flying trainers! You have to begin somewhere. Why do you think pilots put up with the ridiculous working conditions at Ryanair? Yes, to log the hours, that's why.

I thought the Trump administration were dropping charges against him and that would leave him free to go. Just saw this a couple of days ago so is this old news?

Floaters can often be a symptom of poor protein synthesis. As a vegan, you need to pay attention to the protein issue. However, your medical history of TIA and strokes could be a hint of something else. What is your blood pressure? Have you had your creatinine levels checked recently? Are you drinking plenty of water? The formula is 35 ml of water per kilo of body weight.

On 8/21/2017 at 6:37 AM, Bluespunk said:

Didn't realise that's how diphtheria's spread.

4 hours ago, 12DrinkMore said:

 

Yep, I am completely against a cash free society.

 

Not only will it lead to more financial repression, as you have stated, but all income and outgoings will have a traceable electronic trail. Certain transactions in, for example, Pattaya, , I do NOT want to have coming back at me in the future. Probably Lek, Noi, Moo, Nung do not want have accounts showing that Tom, Dick and Harry have been regular visitors.

 

I do not want to be financially profiled. 

 

The tax man would love to have access to all these records. 

 

The finance companies will also take a percentage slice of all purchases. 

 

No thanks.

 

I want to have a choice, and that includes trace-free money in my wallet.

 

Exactly, but I don't see this at all. Last week I tried to make my monthly car payment via credit card and was told it was impossible.

18 hours ago, wgdanson said:

Is that an Illuminati sign he is giving, or does he like Heavy Metal music?

 

I thought it was a Satanic symbol. Seems to be popular with many politicians.

6 hours ago, Bluespunk said:

Didn't realise that's how diphtheria's spread.

Diptheria, that sounds very odd to me. Now, if you said tetanus then that would be another matter. Yes, it's a bacterial infection, usually caused by person to person contact. If he picked it up by stepping on a broken glass it suggests that was somebody around who had diphtheria in the first place and had been drinking from the glass. If that is the case I am surprised there were no more reported cases.

Iherb do a magnesium and potassium aspartate mix. Not much K but 250 mg of magnesium and a little taurine. "Now" foods are the producers. Not my favourite company but probably worth a try.

I agree with the previous poster that this could be a Potassium deficiency. Bananas are a good source but I would also start to supplement with Magnesium as well. You can get Magnesium supplements easily from a pharmacy. Try citrate, carbonate or even chelate. Avoid magnesium oxide as it's a laxative. You will need about 1000 mg per day to begin with.

Excuse me, but didn't the citizens of Crimea vote to return as part of Russia. Crimea was given to Ukraine in 1955 by Kruschev. The Russian speaking citizens were never particularly happy with this deal.

On 6/14/2017 at 9:27 AM, pegman said:

I don't see this as a bargaining chip. As I've been saying on here since the vote there is no way in hell that ANY of the EU's financial services industry stays in the UK. Any remaining EU country politician that allowed that, against the best interests of their own population, should be dumped as soon a practical. This was always the true danger of a Brexit. Severe pain is in store. 

Really, but the banks are more powerful than the politicians so I guess they out vote governments.

3 hours ago, JohnnyBKK said:

None of the actual HIV tests are 100% reliable. So none of the people diagnosted with HIV are sure 100% to have it.

No test is 100% accurate. Always good to ask for a second and even a third opinion.

An awful lot of opinion and very few facts!