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Title: You know, the Brits are a happy lot :)
Post by: AKcurly on August 09, 2004, 12:58:52 AM
http://news.scotsman.com/health.cfm?id=912662004

(in part)

KEVIN HURLEY

THE anti-depressant drug Prozac is being taken in such large quantities in Britain that it has entered water supplies.

Experts from the Environmental Agency are calling for an immediate investigation after it emerged that quantities of the medication were found in rivers and groundwater used for drinking supplies.

curly
Title: You know, the Brits are a happy lot :)
Post by: Gunslinger on August 09, 2004, 01:02:27 AM
well with their crummy weather bland food and dry humor they have to have something to make them happy


Probably a govt conspericy.
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Post by: Octavius on August 09, 2004, 01:26:19 AM
How can a drug simply "find it's way" !?  Careless pill control?  heh, conspiracy!  For it to be detected in water supplies... that's a ****load.  I imagine lakes, rivers, udnerground water sources - millions of gallons.
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Post by: Saintaw on August 09, 2004, 01:59:29 AM
This explains that!

Beetle, you have thrown your stash down the loo again, he? :D
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Post by: Dowding on August 09, 2004, 03:26:56 AM
How anyone from the land of McDonalds and KFC has the gall to talk like a cordon bleu is quite amusing in itself. Probably a Friends fan too.
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Post by: thrila on August 09, 2004, 03:34:27 AM
I always add my own incase the water company neglects to do so.
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Post by: beet1e on August 09, 2004, 03:58:50 AM
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Originally posted by Saintaw
This explains that!

Beetle, you have thrown your stash down the loo again, he? :D
ROFL! I had to read the article to find out exactly what Prozac is!
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Post by: GRUNHERZ on August 09, 2004, 04:46:13 AM
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Originally posted by Dowding
How anyone from the land of McDonalds and KFC has the gall to talk like a cordon bleu is quite amusing in itself. Probably a Friends fan too.


Take your meds young man...
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Post by: Gh0stFT on August 09, 2004, 05:45:20 AM
I thought Prozac is only allowed in north america, didnt knew
its availible in great britain too. Wondering how long it will
take until its availible in germany *lol*
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Post by: Krusher on August 09, 2004, 07:34:57 AM
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Originally posted by Dowding
How anyone from the land of McDonalds and KFC has the gall to talk like a cordon bleu is quite amusing in itself. Probably a Friends fan too.


I think someone missed theire 8 glasses of water today.
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Post by: Dowding on August 09, 2004, 08:17:53 AM
Not at all. I just think it's funny when anyone from the land of the Big Mac critiques any other country for their food.
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Post by: Gunslinger on August 09, 2004, 08:20:57 AM
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Originally posted by Dowding
Not at all. I just think it's funny when anyone from the land of the Big Mac critiques any other country for their food.


Isnt a cordon bleu french?

Man you really need to "drink some tap water" cause I was only kidding :aok
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Post by: Tilt on August 09, 2004, 08:27:09 AM
In the UK most water landing as rain is drunk approximately 7 times before it is returned to the sea..........
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Post by: Gunslinger on August 09, 2004, 08:34:38 AM
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Originally posted by Tilt
In the UK most water landing as rain is drunk approximately 7 times before it is returned to the sea..........



EEEEEEWWWWWWWWWW YUK! :(
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Post by: Dowding on August 09, 2004, 08:42:01 AM
I was actually joking.
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Post by: lazs2 on August 09, 2004, 08:47:17 AM
there isn't a drop of water on the planet that hasn't been through some animal allready.

When in england I was told that the river was full of estrogen because of all the birth control pills taken.  Was told the fish are morphing into transexuals

This would explain all the socialism and sympathy for kerrie and the fear of firearms from the brits on this board.

lazs
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Post by: Tilt on August 09, 2004, 08:48:34 AM
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Originally posted by Gunslinger
EEEEEEWWWWWWWWWW YUK! :(



LOL

Seeing as the Colorado does not actually make it to the sea any more.......... I wonder how that stat would read for the populace of Las Vegas and all places SW of there.
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Post by: Tilt on August 09, 2004, 08:52:27 AM
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Originally posted by lazs2

When in england I was told that the river was full of estrogen because of all the birth control pills taken.  


I was under the impression that the worst cases of this were in Florida.............


must be all those chads.........


and "full of" is pushing the analysis a bit
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Post by: lazs2 on August 09, 2004, 09:02:44 AM
sorry if I hit a nerve tilt..  The water supply of england has hiogher levels of both estrogen and prozak than any other on the planet.

The land that brought us Orwell is also bringing us 1984... roving gangs of theives praying on a drugged up and estrogen filled population.

lazs
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Post by: Eagler on August 09, 2004, 09:19:21 AM
explains why Dowding is happy with his man breasts :)
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Post by: Dowding on August 09, 2004, 09:26:45 AM
1984 features gangs of drugged up thieves? Was that the ladybird picture book version?
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Post by: Dowding on August 09, 2004, 09:28:35 AM
You're the middle aged man, Eagler!
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Post by: thrila on August 09, 2004, 09:34:59 AM
Thats a pretty big generalisation there lazs.  The quality of water where i live is great. OTOH it's bloody expensive.
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Post by: Tilt on August 09, 2004, 09:48:10 AM
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Originally posted by lazs2
sorry if I hit a nerve tilt..  The water supply of england has hiogher levels of both estrogen and prozak than any other on the planet.

The land that brought us Orwell is also bringing us 1984... roving gangs of theives praying on a drugged up and estrogen filled population.

lazs


LOL

Apparantly I am so drugged up (not to mention the onset of CJD) that my nerves are dead to all stimulae.


and also


most of us "English" get our water from Wales and Scotland..... excepting them from Yorkshire, who we never forgave for Richard III, East coast folk, who all live in marshes and various peat bogs, and of course Londoners who are mostly immigrants any way.


Just did some checking......I knew there was a Floridian aspect to oestragen in water supplies....... the phenom was 1st discovered in Lake Apopka in Florida..............

Scary stuff............"when it was discovered that 90 per cent of the alligators had disappeared. Most of those that remained were incapable of reproducing or had no urge to mate. The males were born with noodlees that were not only 75 per cent shorter than average but were also deformed"

to be honest i dont know where the highest average counts would be found world wide...............
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Post by: Tilt on August 09, 2004, 10:05:19 AM
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Originally posted by Dowding
1984 features gangs of drugged up thieves? Was that the ladybird picture book version?


I wonder over his interpretation of "Animal Farm"
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Post by: Dowding on August 09, 2004, 10:18:38 AM
He probably has it on DVD - the version with extra horse molestation.
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Post by: Dago on August 09, 2004, 10:39:02 AM
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Not at all. I just think it's funny when anyone from the land of the Big Mac critiques any other country for their food.


This is quite funny really.  While I won't defend McD's, the food isn't good for you but it is not bad tasting if you grew up with it,  I have yet to run into too many restuarants advertising themselves as "an English restuarant".    

I have heard of people going out for Italian food, Chinese food, for Greek and Thai food, I have heard of people going out to that German restuarant, to that Polish style restuarant, and many times saying "lets go out for some good burgers,  but never, no never heard anyone say "I know honey, lets go out for English food tonight".

English Pubs are differant, for those who think having a social life is sitting in a smokey dark bar getting drunk to be a fun time, than the English Pub works just fine, with its nasty tasting beer, but come on Dowding, English food is not the most exciting stuff to be had.

dago
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Post by: vorticon on August 09, 2004, 10:46:25 AM
dago, americans are NOT allowed to complain about the quality of any other countries beer.
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Post by: beet1e on August 09, 2004, 11:00:45 AM
Title: You know, the Brits are a happy lot :)
Post by: Dowding on August 09, 2004, 11:02:07 AM
I'd say a curry is English - the dishes were generally developed in England to suit English tastes

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English Pubs are differant, for those who think having a social life is sitting in a smokey dark bar getting drunk to be a fun time, than the English Pub works just fine, with its nasty tasting beer.


lol how many pubs have you been in, recently? These days you have to go out of your way to find a 'smokey, dark pub' anywhere in England - your designer bars rule in most large towns and in all the cities. You can even get 'King of P*ss' and other tonic waters so I'm sure you'll be at home.
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Post by: beet1e on August 09, 2004, 11:31:13 AM
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Originally posted by Dowding
You can even get 'King of P*ss' and other tonic waters so I'm sure you'll be at home.
(http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/4/4_1_72.gif)
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Post by: B17Skull12 on August 09, 2004, 11:44:49 AM
awhile back i wentto a place in redlands called "The English pub."  damn best fish and chips i've had in a while.
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Post by: Saintaw on August 09, 2004, 05:32:28 PM
:lol

Dowdwoman is 100% spot on about Curry.... just had one as a matter of fact!