The totally off-topic thread

[LadyC]

My son is nearly 3 and loves looking at photos and videos of himself and us as well. The gentleman and I went to Africa early on in his pregnancy. We saw the gorillas in Rwanda and my son loves that he saw them through my belly button

 

[JohnK]

They absolutely did. Omega oil tabs today. Milk of Magnesia.

I used the fish oil tablets for a number of months many years ago. What a load of old codswallop.

 

[Denali]

I used the fish oil tablets for a number of months many years ago. What a load of old codswallop.

My husband is an addicted vitamin pill popper, I swear we have the healthiest sewage in the street. No one can intake that many vitamins and the body take it all in.

 

[QF WP]

Don't worry, you'll keep saying that as she grows up, I say it about my 7 y.o. and (almost) 10 y.o.

Can't believe 4 months has gone so quickly....

 

[JohnK]

Don't worry, you'll keep saying that as she grows up, I say it about my 7 y.o. and (almost) 10 y.o.

Yeah. I still remember the train ride in Cairns with your daughter. Not sure though if your son was born at the time.

 

[anat0l]

Don't worry, you'll keep saying that as she grows up, I say it about my 7 y.o. and (almost) 10 y.o.

Wow... they grow up fast! I remember it wasn't long ago that after she came into the world, we were joking that you picked her name because the initials were CL!

Merely 2 more years and she'll be in high school already.

Yeah. I still remember the train ride in Cairns with your daughter. Not sure though if your son was born at the time.

Ah yes, I remember her during that do in Cairns. I think JJ wasn't born yet at the time.

FlyerTalk Photo Albums :: Saturday, 23 May 2009

(QF WP, can remove CL's photos from the album if you wish)

 

[QF WP]

Fine to keep the photos there anat0l. Mrs QF WP would have been 4 months pregnant at that point with mini#2.

You just made me check - both their sets of initials (for the christian names) are codes for airlines. But yes the CL wasn't lost on me (as it's also the reverse of my initials)...

 

[Flying mermaid]

I'm sure we fed our dog chocolate when we were kids ( that's decades ago!) - eg Easter Eggs. I got very confused when I heard about this chocolate toxicity for the dogs thing. Wonder if it's like the spread of allergies in kids these days?

we used to as well when I was a kid and possibly the first set of dogs Mr FM and I owned. The last set and the current ones, we haven't given any. The previous set helped themselves on many occasions. The current lot have been totally chocolate and grape free, so it will be interesting to see if there is any lengthening of life span. Something can be toxic and cause damage without causing instant death. I assume some dogs have a major reaction to it, while for most it just causes (possibly slight) damage to kidneys/heart etc.

There is a stimulant called theobromine in chocolate and it is that that causes the damage, but different types of chocolate have different amounts and also it depends on how much is eaten and the size of the dog.

 

[straitman]

Isn't chocolate toxic for dogs? Which may suggest Darrell Lea isn't real chocolate

I read recently that it is not toxic (contrary to what i always thought) but that it can make them very sick.

 

[mrs.dr.ron]

They absolutely did. Omega oil tabs today. Milk of Magnesia.

OMG ! I remember Milk of Magnesia - I cant remember what it was for but I remember we had to have it. Also Waterburys Compound - if you sneezed my mother thought you were coming down with a cold - so out would come the Waterburys Compound.

 

[Pushka]

OMG ! I remember Milk of Magnesia - I cant remember what it was for but I remember we had to have it. Also Waterburys Compound - if you sneezed my mother thought you were coming down with a cold - so out would come the Waterburys Compound.

Oh gawd. I just googled. Supposed to treat constipation. Clearly the older generation were fixated on bowels. I just thought they got fixated as they got old but clearly it's always been a fixation for them.

 

[Flying mermaid]

I read recently that it is not toxic (contrary to what i always thought) but that it can make them very sick.

or it can have absolutely no visible effect on them, but still be damaging organs.

 

[Flying mermaid]

OMG ! I remember Milk of Magnesia - I cant remember what it was for but I remember we had to have it. Also Waterburys Compound - if you sneezed my mother thought you were coming down with a cold - so out would come the Waterburys Compound.

I had milk of magnesia, cod liver oil and Sanatogen inflicted on me. I was a very sickly thing and skinny (had both lungs collapse when I was 2). Sanatogen was disgusting -they tried to disguise it in chocolate milk but there were always huge screaming matches before I would drink it. I was about 10 at the time, but I remember it clearly....

 

[anat0l]

I read recently that it is not toxic (contrary to what i always thought) but that it can make them very sick.

That's probably a good enough reason not to give it to them or let them at it.

As I understand, lactose intolerant humans don't find milk toxic, but it just puts their digestive system (and possibly the olfactory systems of persons in proximity) through hell. It's not like those allergic to nuts or the like where anything ranging from a nibble to a snifter can send them into a life-threatening anaphylactic shock.

Oh gawd. I just googled. Supposed to treat constipation. Clearly the older generation were fixated on bowels. I just thought they got fixated as they got old but clearly it's always been a fixation for them.

I first heard of milk of magnesia from reading a story in primary school. They didn't explain what it did or what happened explicitly to the person who had to take it, but given the story context was this person swallowed something and they went to the hospital and the objective was to get it out without surgery, I think it wasn't hard to work out what was going on. Prune juice was also mentioned in the same sentence.

That seemed to be a big thing in the past, now that you mention it. Milk of magnesia, prunes (or prune juice), All Bran cereal, Metamucil... I don't know what the "obsession" was as I'm sure the current generation don't necessarily have a better digestive system than the last one, though I'm sure that same current generation probably wouldn't appreciate the advertising on TV talking about that kind of stuff.

All said, isn't bowel cancer one of the biggest killers in Australia, but not really talked about?

 

[love_the_life]

I remember the Waterbury's Compound every day - foul tasting if IRRC.

 

[Pushka]

I remember the Waterbury's Compound every day - foul tasting if IRRC.

Is it also called Barley Water? Me Google. No. Creosote! A tonic.
As a child my dad worked in a dental supply lab. I used to 'play' with Mercury! Quicksilver as it used to be called!

 

[GarrettM]

Can't believe 4 months has gone so quickly....

Wait until she's teething, and then goes through sleep regression, and then attacks you as soon as you wake up, leaving cut marks, bite marks, and blood dripping from your face at 5am. Or interrupts your every trip to the loo because she wants to see what's happening. Or refuses to eat anything and then just throws it on the floor. Because you WILL go through it, and then... you wouldn't change her for anything.

 

[mrs.dr.ron]

Is it also called Barley Water?

NO - different stuff. Barley Water is the water you boil barley in then drink it - people in the "OLD" days thought it was a tonic.

I googled Waterburys Compound =

Waterbury's Compound with Creosote and Guaiacol 500ml General Tonic. A liquid formulation recommended for the temporary relief of coughs due to colds and bronchitis. As a general tonic during illness and convalescence.

 

[Cossie]

Cripes, all I can say is that I need a cuppa tea, a bex and a good lie down.....

 

[love_the_life]

Is it also called Barley Water? Me Google. No. Creosote! A tonic.
As a child my dad worked in a dental supply lab. I used to 'play' with Mercury! Quicksilver as it used to be called!

Ooh. living dangerously there.
Waterbury's tasted amazingly bad. Obviously with those ingredients not surprising :shock: