The totally off-topic thread

[marki]

In Poland today there is big national holiday celebrating the constitution third of May.

Being very progressive for 1791. During the cold war it was banned to celebrate it....by the Communists and Soviet Union. Not allowed to sing any of the songs celebrating it. Giving freedom speech, and religion etc etc..... British historian Norman Davies described the legislation as "the first constitution of its type in Europe". The Constitution of 3 May was the first to combine clear division. It was drafted in relation to a copy of the U.S. Constitution. However, it does not mean that the Constitution of 3 May was not original.

It guaranteed tolerance and freedom to all religions. It was truly very progressive and ahead of it's time. Would Love to be there today looking out at the Royal Castle. ( Destroyed during WW2 by German's -naz_ culture along with precious art work.)

This year also is very important for Poles and Poland it is 100 years since Poland gained independence end of WW1 in 1918. It is a Middle European country considered to be Eastern Europe. It is fairly cheap to live there and not an automatically first place you think of visiting.

However once you have been it's hard not to go back

Sto Lat!! ........or Hundred Years clink of vodka bottles (belvedere)

 

[RooFlyer]

You are entitled to think exactly what you want when you want.

I'm not here to change that but I can say "It's not acceptable to wear pyjamas in public". It's not a good look.

And I'll fly whichever airline looks after me the best. I can do that and still think pyjamas in public are silly.

When you say " it's not acceptable to wear pyjamas in public" do you mean that you wouldn't do it, or you think there should be a rule ( on airlines) or a law ( in general) forbidding it?

If the former, go for your life but personally, I think 12 regular hours in your clothes plus maybe 14 hours more on a plane in the same clothes means "pew". Do you usually sleep in your clothes? If the latter, then ha ha ha ha ha - what a ridiculous thing to post ( in my opinion, of course).

 

[Flying mermaid]

I don't believe that I've ever had the flu - colds, yes, but nothing that has made me bed-ridden or with aches and pains. Despite that, I have had the vaccination in recent years because it is prudent now that I am, ahem..., older.

Any idea that the vaccination will cause a form of the flu is a myth.

i really don’t get sick much - maybe a cold/mild flu once every three years or so. However I think I might get the shot this year now that I am in that aged bracket. Don’t like needles though....

 

[Milboo]

I've had a migraine and pushed through a meal, because it was booked, I was taken out and didnt have much say in it. Absolute agony.
I get visual migraines, so lovely flickering arches in my vision, bright spots that stop me from being able to see properly, and the lovely headache that comes when you dont get pain relief in quick enough.

I get migraines generally once or twice a month - and actually have the early warning signs of one right now.

I have had them for over 20 years and yes, I am fortunate mine are not debilitating ones which have me bedridden. However I have simply learnt to push through with them - have a period where I need to stop and let the aura phase pass and take drugs (and a can of Coke!) but then I just get on with things - even with nausea and a pounding head. Over the years I have found this actually helps lessen the impact vs going to bed.

It actually peeves me off when people say oh if it was a migraine, you wouldn’t etc - simply because their migraine experience is different. The migraine scale is a large one and people fall in different places on that scale. Just don’t try and tell me that mine are not migraines!

 

[cove]

There seems to be a new and more effective shingles vax that is about 96% effective. I heard about it during our last trip to California. The tv advertising of drugs is amazing.

 

[TheRealTMA]

There seems to be a new and more effective shingles vax that is about 96% effective. I heard about it during our last trip to California. The tv advertising of drugs is amazing.

It’s free for the over 70s as I understand.

 

[cove]

We saw Bette last time in NYC. Just waiting for the Tony Awards for ideas on what to see in June.

 

[JohnK]

Cause I don't want to be at risk of passing it on to my parents, now in their 80s.

Good point.

Dad is 80 and mum is 74. They've been having the flu vaccine for many years but still get cold/flus throughout the year. Both managed to get it from my daughter twice last year in Septemver and December.

 

[drron]

Milboo as well as disease spectrums a person's perception of pain differs greatly between us humans.
When young I was part of a team looking at asthma and exercise.One young fellow would drop his lung function to 10% of his normal before developing symptoms.Others were distressed at 90% of their normal.

 

[RooFlyer]

I don't believe that I've ever had the flu - colds, yes, but nothing that has made me bed-ridden or with aches and pains. Despite that, I have had the vaccination in recent years because it is prudent now that I am, ahem..., older.

Any idea that the vaccination will cause a form of the flu is a myth.

Same for me. Never had a Flu, but have had some mean colds. Doctors ( eg @drron ) - any research on folks who may be immune, or more immune than most, to the general 'flu'? I have been in work and personal environments where flu had been raging, and I was sure I was a dead duck, but no flu for me.

During the avian flu 'pandemic' a few years ago, I took the strategy of trying to get it - lips first - to get antibodies, but couldn't even manage that.

As I to am getting some good maturing years on the clock, I intended to get my first flu vax this year. Unfortunately it wasn't available when I left on my current trip.

 

[Denali]

Opry Mills Mall (Nashville) has a shooter.

 

[Pushka]

Same for me. Never had a Flu, but have had some mean colds. Doctors ( eg @drron ) - any research on folks who may be immune, or more immune than most, to the general 'flu'? I have been in work and personal environments where flu had been raging, and I was sure I was a dead duck, but no flu for me.

During the avian flu 'pandemic' a few years ago, I took the strategy of trying to get it - lips first - to get antibodies, but couldn't even manage that.

As I to am getting some good maturing years on the clock, I intended to get my first flu vax this year. Unfortunately it wasn't available when I left on my current trip.

My immune system attacks me as well as external enemies. As a child I never got the usual mumps chicken pox measles thing, that in my day pretty much everyone got as there were no immunisations. My brother was debilitated with mumps and chicken pox and despite ‘encouragement’ from mum, I never got. I wonder if there is a link.

 

[ALH]

.......It actually peeves me off when people say oh if it was a migraine, you wouldn’t etc - simply because their migraine experience is different. The migraine scale is a large one and people fall in different places on that scale. Just don’t try and tell me that mine are not migraines!

Fair comment, so I apologise to you and @blackcat20. My migraines are debilitating.

Interesting comment about coke. I never usually touch the stuff, but occasionally when a headache is looming, I will crave one and find it can help.

I’ve also had recent treatment with a Neurological Physiotherapist at UQ who treated my BPPV. She noted that my migraines weren’t being properly managed and they will be able to help me.

 

[Denali]

Lady at work would have terrible migraines, be in bed for days. She would sometimes say she needed a coke to try to avoid one - not all the time but it seemed to help her but it had to be the full strength coke.

Best thing was for her to go home and try to rest the migraine before it consumed her. Terrible

 

[AisleSeat]

May the 4th be with you!

 

[Denali]

May the 4th be with you!

Yoda Fountain. Lucasfilm office, SF.

 

[Hvr]

May the 4th be with you!

You beat @JessicaTam to post the greeting.

 

[drron]

Caffeine,found in Coke as well as coffee,is a vasoconstrictor and so can help migraine.The medication Cafergot is caffeine + ergotamine.

 

[Bindibuys]

Caffeine,found in Coke as well as coffee,is a vasoconstrictor and so can help migraine.The medication Cafergot is caffeine + ergotamine.

LOL, had a cafergot this morning. Woke about 4am and thought.... somethings not right..... 6am here it is.... 1 cafergot, back to bed for a few hours, just had a cup of coffee and now about 80% back in the real world.
Only problem with cafergot is that it has to be made by a compounding chemist, and I don't have one locally.

 

[Pushka]

It is wicked that this Scientist has to go to such lengths to assist his death at the age of 104. Although I suspect any new legislation might not assist him.
Scientist’s emotional goodbye with grandson