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43 minutes ago, bendejo said:
Sounds suspicious that the wife has a reason for the death. If you don't know then you don't know, period. This is common everywhere, people rationalizing to cover their deeds when they have something to hide.
Maybe I missed it somewhere, but is there mention of the strength of the paracetamol tablets?
Just so happened I had surgery last week, so in recent days I've been giving a lot of attention to pain killer dosages etc. The daily maximum for paracetamol (aka Tylenol) according to my doctor is 3,000 mg. But not all at once.
Yeah but even if you take the most massive overdose, it kills you days or weeks later - not minutes later!
Honestly, I would put money on it being nothing at all to do with the Paracetamol - the fact that he took them a few minutes before he died is just a coincidence unless he choked on them. It sounds much more like a heart attack or something of that sort
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41 minutes ago, wakeupplease said:
What did you mean living here is worse than dying.
I would agree with that.
So go somewhere else!
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39 minutes ago, tonray said:
No worries...in Bangkok the primary mineral in the tap water is lead.
I have seldom ever heard a statement as dumb as the original one:
"Medication should always be taken with plain water, and not even mineral water."
Like mineral water is some kind of artificial product that contains stuff that plain tap water doesn't. Tap water contains a huge array of minerals plus chlorine; which ones and at what concentrations depends on where the water came from. In the town where I was brought up, there is masses of dissolved calcium in the form of calcium sulphate and bicarbonate, a significant quantity of nitrates (NOT good) and rather a lot of iron. Apparently, drinking osmotically filtered water (the stuff available from street corner machines and in bottles under various brand names) is not good for you precisely because, along with all the nasty stuff, all the mineral salts that your body actually really needs are removed by the filtration process. The human body needs mineral salts to make the kidneys function properly and if they are absent from the water you drink, the kidneys will necessarily remove them from your blood; this can lead to electrolyte imbalance and in extreme cases that can lead to cardiac arrhythmias that can be fatal How good the domestic filtration systems are at removing heavy metals and other dangerous pollutants, I have no idea but decent tasting mineral water is relatively cheap here so, at home, I drink nothing else. It is not sensible to say that you shouldn't take medication with mineral water - it's simply nonsense!
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4 minutes ago, ThaidaGwaii said:
Typical Thai blaming game again. Sounds like an aneurism, made worse by taking a massive dose of blood thinner...
Except that Paracetamol/Acetominophen is NOT a blood thinner. My best guess would be that he had been working out outside in the heat and had allowed himself to get badly dehydrated. Dehydration combined with further heavy sweating can cause blood electrolyte levels to get so badly out of normal range that it provokes cardiac arrhythmias and eventually heart attack and death.
Maybe it was something else altogether but it's not a bad thing to remind people that, in this climate, dehydration can and does kill.
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40 minutes ago, ResandePohm said:
8 to 10 will definitely kill you
Not so! There is an antidote, acetylcysteine, but it does need to be administered reasonably soon after the overdose (within about 8 hours, after which its efficacy declines fairly rapidly)
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20 minutes ago, psyvolt said:
Rubbish.
It's one of the best analgesics we have. It just all depends what your taking it for..
I'm with Orton Road on this one - I have always found Paracetamol/actominophen to be pretty nearly completely useless as a pain killer for everything I have ever tried to treat with it. I used to take it occasionally for a headache at work when I had no other pain killers and my colleague had paracetamol in stock and it used to leave me, at very best, with half a headache if it had any effect at all. Me personally, I take Naproxen for any pain that warrants taking pain killers and I find that superbly effective (I occasionally suffer with gout and it is magic for gout). No scrip is needed for Naproxen here but it should NOT be abused as it is very harsh on the digestive tract (I always take a dose of Omeprazole with it to protect my stomach) and can increase the risk of heart attacks if taken regularly.
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5 hours ago, trogers said:
Medication should always be taken with plain water, and not even mineral water.
https://www.peoplespharmacy.com/2013/07/01/juice-and-pills-can-be-a-deadly-mix/
What exactly is "plain water" if not mineral water? The stuff that comes out of the tap is not normally considered to be drinkable and the osmotically filtered stuff is actually dangerous to your health (as it contains no mineral salts) so what the hell is a person supposed to drink if not "mineral water"
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3 minutes ago, Stargrazer9889 said:
Gret over yourself already paulbj2, It says you are a super member, but I kind of doubt that after all your ranting on this
subject You call me a bigot, and the forum censors do not shut you down for a day. That is one of my beefs on this forum
It seems that the people who run this do not treat us commenters all equally.
Ever thought they might agree with me not you?
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5 minutes ago, Stargrazer9889 said:
Have yourself a good life bj2 I can see we are on opposite sides of this issue. Cheers!
Geeze
Simple stuff - I'm on one side along with all the scientists, all the researchers and all the evidence and you're on the other side with all the bigots. Will you ever listen to science or to reasoned argument - probably not! Do I care - why would I
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6 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:
Never again- what?
here's some suggestions
Never again
sack your IT staff and outsource to a third world country
have an incompetent in charge
employ useless counter staff
employ arrogant flight staff ( I won't ever fly BA again because of them )
offer no refreshments to stressed and angry customers.
listen to accountants before public relations staff.
Yes but he saving SOOOooo much money!!!
Bringing in the cost accounts brought Leak (Hi-Fi manufacturer in the 50s, 60s and 70s), Jaguar and a host of other British companies known for quality, to their knees and finally led them to Carey Street. This is one of the few things the British are good at, don't knock it!
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5 hours ago, wakeupplease said:
You are so right the facts show it, but there are those who love the stuff and will argue, let them and move on as you will never change a idiot druggies mind. as for the slurs again ignore idiots who do it you are better than them and they know it.
I repeat:
Well, I have met precisely no one who didn't start their drug adventures with nicotine and alcohol so what are the "real" gateway drugs then?
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4 hours ago, Stargrazer9889 said:
Thanks wakupplease, I am a bit slow and should have realized that I was communicating with a former pot head.
I should have let it go about 4 or 5 messages ago.
Geezer
Well, I have met precisely no one who didn't start their drug adventures with nicotine and alcohol so what are the "real" gateway drugs then?
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Just now, paulbj2 said:
India, Pakistan and Bangladesh - oh and I would guess Burma and Cambodia and I have heard from friends from that part of the world Vietnam and Laos
They are all much of a muchness! I actually had to bribe a guy on the Indian railways to sell me a ticket - now that is a first!
Outside of the EU countries (well most of them), Canada, Oz, N-Z and the US, most countries are as corrupt as hell. It's the rule not the exception! The rule of law exists only in the imagination in most countries.
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4 minutes ago, wakeupplease said:
You missed one
We are talking driving also here
India, Pakistan and Bangladesh - oh and I would guess Burma and Cambodia and I have heard from friends from that part of the world Vietnam and Laos
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31 minutes ago, Basil B said:
William Matthew "Willie" Walsh is an Irish airline executive. He is CEO of International Airlines Group, and has been CEO of Aer Lingus and British Airways.
Moved up the Greasy Pole... IAG is BA's parent company.
Yeah I think he was around when I was there. I am trying to think of the name of the guy who ran the show when I was working there. A nice, very down to earth, approachable bloke; I had a few pleasant chats with him when I doing some work with his secretariat. Bob Ayling - that's the guy's name!
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4 minutes ago, wakeupplease said:
Where do most of the cons happen?
What country in the world has the worst corruption?
What country leader said they would have the worlds no 1 language in 20 years.
That must help
Final one
Spent the money defending myself from crooks and even one of the Lawyers sold my defense docs to the other size for 1 mill
On the corruption front the world's worst are:
- Somalia
- South Sudan
- North Korea
- Syria
- Yemen
- Sudan
- Libya
- Afghanistan
- Guinea-Bissau
- Venezuela
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14 minutes ago, wakeupplease said:
Me I live in VPN Land but wonder what you thought.
This discussion seems to hinge on the appalling dangers of a bit of pot. That frankly, is nonsense. I find it hard to understand why people still believe it is so evil. There is zero evidence that supports that point of view. Alcohol on the other hand is a known massive evil in society. I cannot therefore understand why people go banging on about the evils of pot when in fact it is relatively harmless but ignore the appalling damage that alcohol does in society. For sure there are people who get so badly hooked on heroin, crack, methamphetamine and other substances that they will burgle, rob and do violence to satisfy their cravings however, they are a very tiny minority of the people who use recreational drugs just as those who become alcoholics are a tiny minority of those who use alcohol. The experince in Portugal and in the Netherlands has shown that that is the way to go and it would be very good for all concerned if the politicians got their act together, dropped the failed "war on drugs" policy and spent the huge sums that are spent on enforcement and imprisonment on eduction and treatment. I say that not because I'm a liberal snowflake but because it has demonstrated to work!
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2 minutes ago, wakeupplease said:
No fits as yet, but some would disagree, Decaf on tea, coffee love that 3 in 1, I have to kick that habit, but it keeps me awake so can work 20 hours aday and have to after my last visit to a certain country that cost me £150.000. hard life but someone has to do it.
Keep well
PS thanks for the info will try it on the 3 in 1
Am I supposed to glean some info from you spending £150, 000 in an unnamed country?
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25 minutes ago, wakeupplease said:
Me I like Tea and coffee, but drink too much of it, last count we did was 30+ cups a day every day
Drugs I know nothing about?
OK I have to bow to your knowledge as it sounds like you know more about me than I do. I just have to ask you do you know that top D dealer I helped to put away, how is he and a his mates, are they ok? Now the other guys who broke into houses to steel to fuel their d habit and that guy 5 years ago that stabbed a female to death to get her bank card to get cash again to get dr>>>. Do you want me to ask you more about my life? hey what about the time a shooter came through my door after handing over that guy who dealt dr>>>? You know nothing I am afraid.
Drugs are the scum of the earth anyone who uses them have a brain malfunction. If you cannot be happy in a normal life and need drugs to get through, you are a weak and unable to enjoy a life like the rest of us, so insecure and second-rate. Drugs as we know make the user unstable, untrustworthy and susceptible to leading a life of crime.
Now I wish you a nice evening, go and have a cool shower and give that sports body a lie down down on the grass to relax, ps grass you do not smoke i mean.
Ps I wish you could see what I was doing today, it would make you a laughing stock here on TV if you did.
Enjoy your night old mate.
I hope you are doing that on decaffeinated coffee as 30+ cups a day puts you in caffeine overdose territory. One of my ex-girlfriends had major medical issues on about the same coffee consumption as you are claiming. She started having fits and the doctors couldn't figure out what was causing them. In the end she went to a herbalist and the first thing she asked was how much tea and coffee she was drinking and when she told her she said "That's it; that's what's causing the fits" anyway, she stopped drinking the coffee in those quantities and after that she was fine!
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3 minutes ago, Basil B said:
These things happen but I suspect what has angered so many people is the way it has been handled.
Though tonight I suspect there will be no stranded passengers still sleeping on the floor at LHR, thousands of people have probably cancelled their holidays or business trips and others have been delayed days, issues still remain.
- Passengers worldwide are still without their bags and have been bombarding the airline's lost luggage phone lines, website and social media feeds.
- British Airways has also been criticised on social media for directing some passengers towards a premium-rate phone line that costs up to 55p a minute from a mobile device.
- The airline also admitted that it was aware some passengers were unable to file a delayed bag report on its website
I feel the impact will see a little more than Alex Cruz and Willy Walsh forgoing next year bonuses.
I thought Willy Walsh had gone but I am a bit out of touch with happenings in the UK. Certainly I think Cruz should fall on his sword for this one!
First things first - why was there no mirror? We are not talking just about BA but Iberia, and a couple of others; I'm sure they all use the same system - it would be insane if they didn't!
Was there no planning for this sort of eventuality? I don't know where their systems are located now; I know BABS has been retired and replaced with something a bit more modern but what I don't know. Back in the days when I worked there, the mainframe that ran BABS was housed in a building not that far from one of the runways, so if an aircraft got it a very wrong for any reason, it was foreseeable that it could have taken out that building. At an airport, that sort of potential hazard is kind of obvious, isn't it! There was a BA 747 whose pilot "got it a bit wrong", rather big time, and mistook the A4 Bath Road for one of the runways. He pulled up and went round only just in time. Sadly, the Captain of the aircraft was so traumatized by what he had nearly done, that he committed suicide ( http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/pilot-in-near-miss-found-dead-in-car-1561147.html )
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22 minutes ago, wakeupplease said:
Me I like Tea and coffee, but drink too much of it, last count we did was 30+ cups a day every day
Drugs I know nothing about?
OK I have to bow to your knowledge as it sounds like you know more about me than I do. I just have to ask you do you know that top D dealer I helped to put away, how is he and a his mates, are they ok? Now the other guys who broke into houses to steel to fuel their d habit and that guy 5 years ago that stabbed a female to death to get her bank card to get cash again to get dr>>>. Do you want me to ask you more about my life? hey what about the time a shooter came through my door after handing over that guy who dealt dr>>>? You know nothing I am afraid.
Drugs are the scum of the earth anyone who uses them have a brain malfunction. If you cannot be happy in a normal life and need drugs to get through, you are a weak and unable to enjoy a life like the rest of us, so insecure and second-rate. Drugs as we know make the user unstable, untrustworthy and susceptible to leading a life of crime.
Now I wish you a nice evening, go and have a cool shower and give that sports body a lie down down on the grass to relax, ps grass you do not smoke i mean.
Ps I wish you could see what I was doing today, it would make you a laughing stock here on TV if you did.
Enjoy your night old mate.
Sounds you live in the wrong country
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17 minutes ago, Stargrazer9889 said:
Thanks for your check spelling, and in Canada Fentanyl, and the deadlier car Fentanyl is killing a lot of drug users these
days. Bigoted Twaddle seems to be an expression from Britain, or Europe. My opinion may be bigoted but I prefer to just think
of I as different than some of the other commenters on this forum.
Geezer
Fentanyl, Tramadol, Oxycontin and all the other opiate pain killers that doctors, particularly, in the US are doling out like Smarties are killing folk by the score! They are apparently the main "gateway" drug to heroin in many areas now.
How else would I describe someone who, in spite of all the overwhelming evidence to the contrary, insists on hanging on to total nonsense beliefs? That is what you are doing. You are a typical case of "anecdote times two = evidence" and "correlation = causation". Both nonsense concepts!
There is something you seem to have missed. It seems like you have this crazy idea that everyone who uses drugs goes on to suffer terribly from them and likely die of them. The reality is absolutely nothing like that at all! Very, very few people indeed who use drugs, even drugs like cocaine, crack and heroin, go on to become hopeless addicts. There are a vast numbers of "users" in the music industry (no great surprise there), in banking, in the legal professions (including judges), in the world of politics (should be no surprise to a Canadian) in fact in all the professions and in all walks of life who "use" recreational drugs of all kinds and who never become addicted to them, who hold down very responsible, often high pressure jobs and function as absolutely normal members of society. The ones that you actually get to hear about; the ones you see as physical and mental wrecks on the street are the exceptions not the rule! My guess would be that there are far more people out there who have been damaged by alcohol, who have damaged other people with alcohol, who have destroyed their families with alcohol and indeed die of alcohol related problems than ever there are who are similarly afflicted by illegal drugs. How do I know this? Well, I was an habitual drug user for most of my adult life - not just pot but just about everything. I'm retired now and I don't touch anything other than alcohol these days, not even tobacco, but I am still in touch with a lot of the people I knew back then when we were all "using" and most of them are, like me, not using anything other than alcohol - some still smoke pot - others still do the odd line of coke or speed but we are all older and we've all calmed down a bit now. Most have raised families, bought houses and generally done what most people do! Not one of my circle of friends has died of illegal drugs, one has died of tobacco (lung cancer), two have died of drink (one of acute pancreatitis and one of cirrosis of the liver) the rest are still going strong and seem to be in pretty rude good health. Even the one who were dumb enough to get themselves hooked on heroin seem to have managed to get themselves off it again and are fully back as functioning members of society. This is why people like you annoy me. You have no idea what you are talking about - zero experience of that world and yet you feel qualified to argue with people who actually do know what that world is like. People like you do massive amounts of damage - people like you are the reason why politicians feel they cannot decriminalize drugs despite the fact that just about every expert in the world says that that is the way to go; as they have done in Portugal. Guess what; in Portugal addiction rates are plummeting, the social harm done by drugs is reducing daily and even the reactionary, right-wing opponents of decriminalization have now all admitted that, as a policy, it is working brilliantly and they will not go back to old oppressive policies if they get elected.
That is why I call you a bigot and why I describe what you say as twaddle - because it's true!
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3 minutes ago, Ulic said:
This is what happens when you outsource your IT needs to India. End of story. I don't believe a word
British Airways says. Just self serving damage control. " In no way our fault, force majeure"
Funnily enough, I tried to contact my old boss at BA to get the inside story but his email address no longer exists; I guess, as he was in the IT department, his job is one on the ones that went to India.
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2 minutes ago, Basil B said:
It is called a "Mirror" and I would have thought that they would need at least 2, each located in different parts of the world.
But they still need pen and paper as the ultimate back up...
Indeed. I didn't use the technical term as not all the people in this conversation would necessarily know what a "mirror" was.
The last time this happened to BA was in the late 80s or early 90s (before I worked there). A JCB cut the power supply cables to the building at Heathrow that housed the mainframe that ran BABS (British Airways Business System) unfortunately, the digger cut through the mains supply cable and the cable from the backup generators that were in buildings about 5 metres away so when the emergency battery power ran out after a few minutes, the lights went out along with the mainframe! There was no mirror - it was chaos for a couple of days - I believe the cost to BA was of the order of £40 million. You might have thought they would have learned their lesson from that but...
You cannot run a modern airline the size of BA on pen and paper - full stop!
Just one of the required pre-flight procedures is a weight and balance calculation that must be done to ensure that the load is distributed within the envelope specified by the airframe manufacturer which ensures that the aircraft is balanced so as to allow safe handling and trimming of the aircraft with a take-off fuel load and at all fuel loads that can be anticipated during the scheduled flight. That calculation can be done manually and indeed mostly was done manually until the 1990s when computerized systems started to take over this task. Doing this fast and accurately, manually, was considered to be something of a black art. Moreover the larger the aircraft, the more challenging it is to do. There are very few people today who have the necessary skills, expertize and practice to do the weight and balance by hand quickly and accurately and of course many modern aircraft are much larger than when it was habitually calculated by hand - best of luck getting that done without the computerized systems (BA actually said that one of the systems that had gone down as a result of the outage was their computerized weight and balance system). Without a weight and balance calculated and the form completed, an aircraft is not permitted to take off. That is just one of the legal responsibilities that an airline has to comply with. A full passenger and baggage manifest is another, along with a full cargo manifest if the aircraft is carrying cargo (BA have no dedicated cargo fleet but, surprisingly, carry quite a lot of air cargo on passenger flights).
Thai wife says five paracetamol killed British husband
in Thailand News
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Yes, a couple of friends of mine have had life endangering conditions, of which they were completely unaware, diagnosed and treated in time as a result of annual check-ups. Likewise, it is with and annual health checkup that I was diagnosed with diabetes, so yes, it probably is worthwhile. In many countries, your family doctor will give you an ear-bashing if you don't have one done regularly (Luxembourg, where I used to live, is one such country)