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Joined: May 20, 10 ♂ 		 Aug 8, 10, 22:34    #91
nott:
Hold on, do you know that sending dangerous materials by post is illegal?


I mean deliver by your own ;)
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Joined: Jun 2, 10 ♂ 		 Aug 8, 10, 22:34    #92
zetigrek:
yes I know ;) But you are poisoning water. No disaster? Well the fish you eat are pretty often with loads of heavy metals ;)


I just read somewhere here, that only 17% of Poles eat fish. Things start to add up... Polish kitchen is definitely based on reasonable premises. Healthy kitchen. Fact.
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Joined: May 28, 09 ♀ 		Edited by: PlasticPole  Aug 8, 10, 22:37    #93
zetigrek:
but to collect it carefully, wind the room and send the mercury to the utilisation unit.

That's very difficult to do. The mercury can break into nearly microscopic beads. What we need are thermometers which contain no mercury whatsoever.
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Joined: Jun 2, 10 ♂ 		 Aug 8, 10, 22:38    #94
zetigrek:
I mean deliver by your own ;)


Now you're talking. Yeah, no argument here. You get that blinking orange lamp, and off you go. Battery operated... now that's a vicious circle, isn't it? PP was right.

Poles are the saddest nation on Earth. MYTH! :)
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Joined: Dec 25, 07 ♂ 		 Aug 8, 10, 22:39    #95
Not the saddest nation on Earth, no. Perhaps one of them ;) Nah, some are happy and many aren't. That's my take.
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Joined: Jun 2, 10 ♂ 		Edited by: nott  Aug 8, 10, 22:41    #96
PlasticPole:
What we need are thermometers which contain no mercury whatsoever.


Nor alcohol. Alcohol is bad for you.

Oh, I heard about a man who stepped on broken glass, got a splinter in his blood, it travelled to his heart, and killed him on the spot. Myth?

Seanus:
Not the saddest nation on Earth, no. Perhaps one of them ;) Nah, some are happy and many aren't. That's my take.


I am said. I know it. Now I do agree, that I do not constitute the nation. Sad, innit...
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Joined: May 28, 09 ♀ 		 Aug 8, 10, 22:47    #97
nott:
stepped on broken glass, got a splinter in his blood,

You can get a splinter of glass just under your skin, but not in your veins, unless the splinter is too fine to cause any damage. A splinter large enough to cause your heart damage would be too large to travel there via your veins. It would wreck havoc on a vein long before it reaches your heart.
So that would be


myth
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Joined: Jun 2, 10 ♂ 		Edited by: nott  Aug 8, 10, 22:49    #98
PlasticPole:
So that would be


myth


So we can keep our glass thermometers. Empty.

hold on... there are quite big veins just under the skin...




:)
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Joined: May 28, 09 ♀ 		 Aug 8, 10, 22:53    #99
The glass splinter would cause a blood clot or rip a vein as it travels...that would cause bleeding or blockage. You might have an aneurism first, if the clot reaches your brain.
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Joined: May 20, 10 ♂ 		 Aug 8, 10, 22:57    #100
Is PlasticPole a medicine student? ;)
PlasticPoleThreads: 10
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My speciality is plastic surgery ;)
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Joined: Jun 2, 10 ♂ 		 Aug 9, 10, 00:11    #102
PlasticPole:
The glass splinter would cause a blood clot or rip a vein as it travels...that would cause bleeding or blockage. You might have an aneurism first, if the clot reaches your brain.


Another myth busted.

So what am I supposed to be afraid of now?

:(
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Joined: May 28, 09 ♀ 		 Aug 9, 10, 00:19    #103
nott:
:(

I got a myth for you to decipher...


Too much frowning causes creases on the sides of your mouth known as "frown lines". Is this truth or is it a myth?
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Joined: Jun 2, 10 ♂ 		 Aug 9, 10, 00:55    #104
PlasticPole:
Too much frowning causes creases on the sides of your mouth known as "frown lines". Is this truth or is it a myth?


But frowning is about forehead isn't it? MYTH! :)
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Joined: Nov 3, 09 ♂ 		 Oct 11, 10, 08:50    #105
happymeal wrote:

"Polish people are afraid of 2 things. Russians and DRAFTS ha ha ha.

Kills me.

You can’t get a cold from a draft… OR WIND… or a breeze. Yes the cold air lowers your immunity and can make you more vulnerable to getting a cold but it can’t give you a cold. A cold is a VIRAL!...."
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Joined: Nov 23, 06 ♂ 		 Oct 11, 10, 10:16    #106
But a draft CAN cause rhinitis ... oh, go look it up!

Sorry for the pedantry.

Old Polish people have this deeply engrained folk memory of TB, which killed millions and is making a comeback thanks to immigrants from the East and liberal healthcare policies (the authorities don't lock up TB-carrying drunks and the Church stupidly encourages drunks to gather in groups at a soup kitchen outside the Palace of Culture).
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PlasticPole:
Too much frowning causes creases on the sides of your mouth known as "frown lines". Is this truth or is it a myth?


Well, many unhappy/negative people have naturally downturned mouths in my experience so I would say this is probably not a myth.
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Joined: Nov 23, 06 ♂ 		 Oct 11, 10, 10:22    #108
Polish women have frown lines going vertical on the forehead, just above the nose. Polish men have mimic lines going horizontal across the forehead.

This is because women scoldingly accuse and men feign ignorance and innocence.
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Joined: Dec 25, 07 ♂ 		 Oct 11, 10, 21:07    #109
Some see being Polish as a myth in and of itself. I often get this 'we are the most enigmatic people on Earth' vibe. You can see it on PF too. If you know Polish history, you can understand why some are as they are. Nothing too deep about it!
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Joined: Nov 23, 06 ♂ 		 Oct 11, 10, 21:32    #110
I come from Yorkshire and have spent a lifetime with people who have chips on their shoulder. Then I met Irish people, then Poles ... chips with everything!
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Joined: Dec 25, 07 ♂ 		 Oct 11, 10, 21:38    #111
Wouldn't it be Yorkshire pudding rather than chips on their shoulder?
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Joined: Dec 2, 06 ♀ 		 Oct 12, 10, 04:19    #112
Varsovian:
Polish women have frown lines going vertical on the forehead, just above the nose. Polish men have mimic lines going horizontal across the forehead.

This is because women scoldingly accuse and men feign ignorance and innocence.



lol. Stop it people! I'm laughing so hard I'm getting crows feet (kurze łapki in polish) around my eyes!

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