No drugs

[linuxchaos]

No in London they demolished my favourite Railway Station (I'm a Train
spotter) Broad Street and built this huge circular buisiness complex.
The Railway line was a real gem, running about 50 ft in the air on
bridges a real classic.

Ben

Mark Kelly wrote:

>  Which Broadgate?  The Coventry Broadgate?
>
>      ----- Original Message -----
>      From: linuxchaos
>      To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU
>      Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2000 3:14 PM
>      Subject: Re: No drugs
>       Well, my Dad was an advisor to parliament and more or less
>      helped mastermind Broadgate! Me I've got a BTEC & City &
>      Guilds in ComputerNetworking & Sound Engineering, alkso
>      halfway through a degree in computing
>
>      Ben
>
>      ANDREW GARIBALDI wrote:
>
>     > Don't know about the rest of you but I found that
>     > interesting - I always wanted to be a pharmacist but
>     > failed horribly at physics. Still ended up with a Biology
>     > Degree though - which prompts tonight's little trivia
>     > question - who's the 'smartest' one here - anyone own up
>     > to degrees? doctorates? members of parliament? future
>     > presidents (oh, sorry, that's next week isn't it!!!)Andy
>     > Garibaldi (not entirely seriously you understand)
>     >
>     >      ----- Original Message -----
>     >      From: Brad Dahl
>     >      To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU
>     >      Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 3:25 PM
>     >      Subject: Re: No drugs
>     >       >>>watch out for all those pharmacuetical legal
>     >      drugs tho - panadol for one ( garbage that
>     >      produces no pain relief other than a placebo
>     >      effect and actually causes liver damage - did
>     >      you know headaches are a symtom of liver
>     >      damage?) Let's see if I can work some BOC
>     >      content into this... As someone who spends way
>     >      to much of his time trying to save people who
>     >      have overdose on medications (aka drugs), I felt
>     >      a need to comment on this.  Panadol or Tylenol
>     >      in the US (paracetamol or acetaminophen) is
>     >      actually quite an effective and safe analgesic,
>     >      when used in the proper doses.  In fact,
>     >      acetaminophen itself will cause no damage to
>     >      your liver.  The problem occurs when you take so
>     >      much that your body cannot metabolize it via the
>     >      normal routes to safe metabolites and instead
>     >      metabolizes it to a very toxic metabolite.  In a
>     >      normal healthy adult it takes at least 7 grams
>     >      of acetaminophen before this problem occurs (or
>     >      14 of the extra strength tablets).  Of course,
>     >      you can also get into trouble by taking more
>     >      than the 2 tablets at an increased frequency
>     >      than recommended (which provides no greater pain
>     >      relief no matter what you may think) or you have
>     >      preexisting liver problems (or maybe have a
>     >      frequent "beverage"). I have yet to see anyone
>     >      kill themselves with ibuprofen, so there is you
>     >      challenge for the day. Party on! Brad Oh yeah,
>     >      (warning BOC content) at my first concert which
>     >      was BOC, Kansas and Ted Nugent at the Long Beach
>     >      Sports Arena in 1975 (anybody else here get to
>     >      that one?), my friend had been very ill with
>     >      vomiting so he had some medicine from his
>     >      physician that he referred to as "stomach
>     >      tranquilizers".  We were getting a drink from a
>     >      drinking fountain when a guy in line saw him
>     >      take one and said "Hey, can I have some of
>     >      those?".  My friend said "They're just stomach
>     >      tranquilizers." and the guy said "Cool" and took
>     >      about 3-4 of them.  I remember after the concert
>     >      looking at the many passed out people on the
>     >      floor (some in a pile of vomit) as we left and
>     >      thinking "You guys really missed a great show."
>     >      Maybe I'm the one who missed the great show?
>     >      Probably not.  (what a prude I am)
>     >
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