OFF: O2 Bars

[Daniel Wikdahl]

At 01:36 PM 5/14/97 EDT, you wrote:
>>It also shouldn't make any difference what you earn/what your economical
>>standard are when you're going to use medical care or related
>services...like
>>oxygen bars -I meen you shouldn't have to consider if you can afford the
>service
>>or not, good medical treatment is not for rich people only...


Rudy writes;


>Daniel, you socialist bastid (insert smiley).

Well, I'm a socialist... but bastard :-) ... I'll guess that's not up to
me to decide :-)


>You misunderstand, these are
>NOT for medicinal purposes, but strictly an upscale trendy thing.

No, honestly, I didn't misunderstood... I knew it wasn't a matter of medical
treatment (but a trendy thing if you want to put it that way) but when I did
my reply a lot of different thoughts came to my mind, that I felt I had to write
because I saw certain likeness in the subjects.

>They
>"flavor" the oxygen by bubbling it through flavored waters.

Jesus, this is one of the most silliest things I ever heard.
It's almost as stupid as those vegetables on sale in England that are flavoured
with candy taste -just to get kids to eat them (haven't somebody mentioned
this on this list before?)
I did my military service as a diver in the navy and oxygen bars was a part
of our first aid kit (you use in case of suspected caisson disease) and
I often tested the bars before the divings to see that they worked as they
were supposed to... and pure oxygen has a pleasent refreshing "taste".

> In Toronto,
>they had to lower the concentration because of the risk of harmful effects
>to patrons sucking on pure O2 for 20 minutes.   We evolved in a roughly 20%
>concentration of the gas and our bodies are designed for that level, not
>dramatically more or less.   Both lead to bad things.  This is just a way to
>separate rubes from their money.

Yup! Agree! ...and another thought too; this is a clear case of when somebody is
trying to cure the symptoms instead of the disease (i.e the pollution of the
enviroment).

> Now if there were nitrous bars, I'd be on
>your free access for the masses bandwagon in a heartbeat.

Have you ever taken a ride in a pressure cabin? This is something
everybody should try once in their life -just sitting there and getting
drunk/high on nitrogen is fabulous.
I have done this three times to a pressure that is equivalent to 50meters
depth in the ocean and then I was laughing uninterruptingly at everything
-the snot on my hand was unbelievingly funny, I laughed at the fact that I
laughed and so on... but the funniest thing of them all was when one of the
conscripts mentioned that his depth-meter was made in Finland... then I started
to cry of happiness!

mvh -Daniel


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