ARMY...................MOON GATES NOW OPEN..........week beginning 27th July 2015

[JackieClaire]

Now with that horrifying image embedded in our minds..............I'm off to TV land with my chocolates.

[roxane]

enjoy.

[Tabbers (a.k.a. KTAB)]

Jeez yis have been busy here today army folks.

[Tabbers (a.k.a. KTAB)]

And all called it a night too......

[Bandit]

Hi guys, sorry for not posting in a few days, had pc problems and a bit busy with starting the new job. Glad to report that so far the new job seems perfect, just afraid a bit too perfect, and do not to want to mess it up on any level, good news is they seem like that they actually do care about what they do and are relatively decent beings, would one have thought that was a given but then experience thought me otherwise. Whats with the big teeth?
Hope all are well

[Tabbers (a.k.a. KTAB)]

Hey bandit, great the job is going so well, sometimes we can talk ourselves into imagining all sorts of scenarios that never materialize, or maybe thats just me.

The teeth pic is Mollys new look, nice.

[Bandit]

Thanks kbc, I know I always envisage every possible problem or scenario before they happen, have to just take it one day at a time. Why is Molly looking for a new look, do we not all love her for the way she is?
Checking out now to wind down and watch a movie or something, talk tomorrow
x

[Tabbers (a.k.a. KTAB)]

I am off to make some of Lidls lovely green tea with jasmine, recommended, but I wont be back as one of my dogs has taken up residence under the computer desk and is.....how shall I put it?.....emitting some foul aromas/odors into the air eeewww.

P.S. Molly has been having dental work and its just about finished. See you tomorrow.

[NoSugar]

a thing about cancer too. how having a glass of wine daily can raise the risk of breast cancer by 10%. if you drink two or three, it goes up to 20% and so on. that surely cant be right.

This is my pet peeve with reporting of science in the popular press. Most often, and surely here, they are talking about relative risk, not absolute risk. Say a generic person's risk of getting breast cancer is 0.10% (I just made that up). If drinking one glass of wine a day increases it 10%, the risk is now 0.11% (0.10 + 10% of 0.10). That technically is a 10% increase but do we really care? Even 2 or 3 glasses takes it to only a 0.12% risk. The way they phrase it, though, makes it sound like a person could go from not likely to get breast cancer to a risk of 10 or 20%! If that were the case, I'm pretty sure alcohol would be illegal.

[roxane]

bandit, what tabs said. try not to catastrophise, something im prone to as well.

NS thanks, that makes more sense. bearing in mind the figure they said also of everyone here is at potential 30% risk of cancer before even adding the extra % from drinking. and if you smoke too, order a coffin now.

[NoSugar]

bandit, what tabs said. try not to catastrophise, something im prone to as well.

NS thanks, that makes more sense. bearing in mind the figure they said also of everyone here is at potential 30% risk of cancer before even adding the extra % from drinking. and if you smoke too, order a coffin now.

So one glass takes us to 33% (not 40%) and two or three to 36% (not 50%) risk. I guess none of those sound good to me. I guess the key question is why everyone's risk is so high?? That didn't used to be the case.

[roxane]

Don't forget the exponential of the glasses, four five bottle two bottles. Must take it up to 100% for a high % of people. Every woman with alcohol issues would get breast cancer and they don't. Which shows it's flawed. It's obviously flawed on the face of it anyway.

Plastics, food additives? Who knows.

Now I'm to bed, work tomorrow.

[satz123]

Can't sleep - even reading NS & Roxy's exchange on statistics didn't do the trick :haha:

Here I go:

[satz123]

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[NoSugar]

Stats should put anyone to sleep! Sweet dreams...