Today I'm neither Angry nor Happy about....

[Bruce Rioja]

I've woke up to find that I've got a load of little red spots on my legs. Nowhere else, just on my legs. More on my calves than my thighs. WTF?

Just a silly quip Annoyed Grunt.

No worries, I'm not the PC police.

You're not the TV police either

[Annoyed Grunt]

I've woke up to find that I've got a load of little red spots on my legs. Nowhere else, just on my legs. More on my calves than my thighs. WTF?

Just a silly quip Annoyed Grunt.

No worries, I'm not the PC police.

You're not the TV police either

Quiet you!

[Bruce Rioja]

Told you I was poorly - they've sent me home from work. Full blown man flu. Aching from top to toe. Every time I cough feels like a wrecking ball to the chest. Still, Jeremy Kyle in HD

[Lord Kangana]

Thanks for the stout advice, Chaps, but they've pretty much gone now. Am wondering if they're anything to do with Friday and Saturday evenings over-indulgances?

Vitamin C deficiency?

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Hmm, could be. Cheers, Gary, I'll get some Vit C tabs (as opposed to fannying about with oranges) and see how it goes

You'd be better off with broccoloi and spinach than either of those two. And red peppers and rose hip syrup and loads of other shit.

[Bruce Rioja]

You'd be better off with broccoloi and spinach than either of those two. And red peppers and rose hip syrup and loads of other shit.

They've gone now, Chef. A week in the sunshine seems to have seen them off. It also seems to have sorted out the spot of psoriasis on my elbows.

[BWFC_Insane]

I think really high doses of vitamnin C have been clinically shown to boost an immune system sufficiently to fight off a cold. However, that only works if you take the vit C before you get any symptoms. ie within a day or so of contracting the virus. Hence before you know you've got one.....

I think once you've got a cold/flu vitamin C is useless (assuming your daily recommended intake of it is being intaken save for perhaps a placebo effect......

[Lord Kangana]

Zinc, not vitamin c, is what ypou take to stop a cold. Vitamin C does f*ck all for it.

[BWFC_Insane]

Zinc, not vitamin c, is what ypou take to stop a cold. Vitamin C does f*ck all for it.

Yeah think I must have mis-remembered and confused zinc and vit c.

However, I'd not be pouring high doses of zinc down myself any time soon, cold or not....

[Gary the Enfield]

You'd be better off with broccoloi and spinach than either of those two. And red peppers and rose hip syrup and loads of other shit.

They've gone now, Chef. A week in the sunshine seems to have seen them off. It also seems to have sorted out the spot of psoriasis on my elbows.

Responds well to UV light. Mine clears up on holiday too.

I get Psoriatic lesions on my legs and arms sometimes. I don't wash with perfumed soaps (use Simple Soap/ Shower Gel) and I use an Emulsifying ointment on my face.

If the lesions are particularly itchy I use a hydrocortisone cream prescribed by the doctor but a milder, over the counter, one would probably be okay for you.

[Bruce Rioja]

Responds well to UV light. Mine clears up on holiday too.

I get Psoriatic lesions on my legs and arms sometimes. I don't wash with perfumed soaps (use Simple Soap/ Shower Gel) and I use an Emulsifying ointment on my face.

If the lesions are particularly itchy I use a hydrocortisone cream prescribed by the doctor but a milder, over the counter, one would probably be okay for you.

Sorry, mate, I missed this. I have some stuff from the doc's called Dovobet Gel which manages it without actually curing it. Tried OTC stuff, absolute shite, man.

[Bruce Rioja]

The Titanic. Terrible disaster and all that, but why do television companies seem to want to celebrate it above all others? Don't see them running any Lockerbie specials do you? There's summat on Channel 5 right now!

[Annoyed Grunt]

There's a cruise that's retracing the route the Titanic took. I look forward to the memorial 9/11 flights.

[Bruce Rioja]

There's a cruise that's retracing the route the Titanic took. I look forward to the memorial 9/11 flights.

Are they sending The Herald of Free Enterprise?

[Annoyed Grunt]

Costa Concordia, I think.

[bobo the clown]

A very long time ago I thought 'Titanic, sad, but no emotional impact on me'. I've avoided the whole schjmozzle about it ... not easy, btw, at the pace of the current bllx about it.

So, never saw the Winslett film, nor the Lew Grade one, watched no documentary about it in the past 30yrs & kept away from the current hype.

Hopefully that'll be it for a few decades once this weeks out of the way.

[Bruce Rioja]

That said, I find it impossible not to think, every time I'm in Belfast and looking out to Harland and Woolff's yard, that they built the Titanic there!

[Montreal Wanderer]

The Titanic. Terrible disaster and all that, but why do television companies seem to want to celebrate it above all others? Don't see them running any Lockerbie specials do you? There's summat on Channel 5 right now!

Perhaps the 100th anniversary is seen as special as opposed to the 24th for Lockerbie...?

[Bruce Rioja]

The Titanic. Terrible disaster and all that, but why do television companies seem to want to celebrate it above all others? Don't see them running any Lockerbie specials do you? There's summat on Channel 5 right now!

Perhaps the 100th anniversary is seen as special as opposed to the 24th for Lockerbie...?

There's something on about it every other week. You Canadians and your icebergs.

But my point remains - no disaster, be it Lockerbie, Zeebrugge or whatever receives the endless hours of TV time, re-enactments and so on.

[Montreal Wanderer]

The Titanic. Terrible disaster and all that, but why do television companies seem to want to celebrate it above all others? Don't see them running any Lockerbie specials do you? There's summat on Channel 5 right now!

Perhaps the 100th anniversary is seen as special as opposed to the 24th for Lockerbie...?

There's something on about it every other week. You Canadians and your icebergs.

But my point remains - no disaster, be it Lockerbie, Zeebrugge or whatever receives the endless hours of TV time, re-enactments and so on.

As I have mentioned elsewhere, it was a Greenland iceberg near Newfoundland - nothing to do with we Canadians. On the main point I guess there have been many airplane disasters and they don't stand out so much. When the big ship went down it was an incredibly dramatic story and remains so in the minds of many. IIRC correctly, unlike the Costa Concordia and other modern shipping disasters they really did believe in women and children first.

Edit: Just looked up the figures. Only 1 child of 30 in first and second class were lost, 17 of 230 women in those classes, and 3 of 23 women crew. In third class the fatality rate was higher for women (54%) and children (66%), but male figures in all classes were higher including 78% of the male crew.

[Bruce Rioja]

As I have mentioned elsewhere, it was a Greenland iceberg near Newfoundland

Yeah, yeah, yeah Newfoundland = Canadian, and if a ball turns up in my garden, it's mine!