PEE

[kitbabingley]

IS NOT STERILE!!

^^ This has been a public service announcement on behalf of all those, like myself, who are fed up with seeing/hearing myths like this presented as facts (often in a very smug manner) all over the place. I have no idea how this particular one came to be, but it is incredibly pervasive.

What are your "fgs NO" facts that you NEED to clear up?

That children can't sing baa baa black sheep
That Christmas lights have been taken down and called winter lights (most likely council cuts)
That you cant say happy Christmas as it's offensive to non Christians

Cut your hair and it grows faster.

No. It does not.

Im pregnant currently was told to 'stop wearing tight jeans' because 'we didn't have tight jeans in my day and we had none of the problems that are around today' by a family member. Hmmmm yes I'm sure jeans are the number one cause for all pregnancy related issues!

That the black bits on bananas are where snakes have bitten them and are deadly poison. 😂 From DP courtesy of his grandmother who firmly believes it.

Oh and eating strawberries during pregnancy will mean my baby has a birth mark. Quite a few people have said that one- usually whilst I'm either eating or buying strawberries. (Cravings)

Abraiid2, rigors refers to the uncontrollable shaking you can get with a very high fever. Common with a bad kidney infection. It's not caused by getting a 'chill'.

There is some recent evidence that lower temperatures can make us more susceptible to picking up a virus, but you still have to come into contact with the infectious agent. Just going out in the cold won't do it.

Sweetbreads are the testicles of an animal.
Oh no they're not.

maras sometimes they are! heree*

When it comes to bananas, the vague consensus seems to be that the riper the banana the less likely to give you any bowel trouble as they contain less insoluble fibre than an unripe banana.
The problem seems to be (according to everyone on the internet search I did) that if you're consuming plenty of insoluble fibre and not drinking enough water then constipation is much more likely due to the stool becoming too hard.
So ripe banana + glass of water should = normal stool.
I wish they did give my toddler harder stools. Cleaning out his potty is a grim job at the moment.

*Today 08:20 Cel982

Abraiid2, rigors refers to the uncontrollable shaking you can get with a very high fever. Common with a bad kidney infection. It's not caused by getting a 'chill'.

There is some recent evidence that lower temperatures can make us more susceptible to picking up a virus, but you still have to come into contact with the infectious agent. Just going out in the cold won't do it.*

Yes. I know. That's why I posted the link. To show that there could be some confusion between cause and effect!

I have a rare autoimmune condition which means I sometimes, thankfully less often now, suffer from days of rigors, high fevers and aching joints. Quite often get the rigors first when the temperatures outdoors are high so no question of 'chill'. But the rigors sound a bit like what people have traditionally termed 'chills' and often start with a pain in the kidney area. I can see why the 'chill' could seem like a condition in its own right if you didn't know what was going on.

You'll catch a cold from leaving the house with wet hair - well I'm nearly 50 and am yet to catch that cold!

This thread reminds me of the bit in Angelas Ashes, where Frank (about 9 or 10 iirc) gets up in the middle of the night, soaks his hair under the cold tap outside, and stands about in the freezing cold for ages, hoping to get sick (to avoid doing something the next day). He goes back to bed, falls into a great sleep, and wakes up early the next morning, feeling fantastic (think he describes it as "fresh and lively, that he'd be in great form where it not for x looming over him")

Was going out with wet hair/undressed not more associated with risking hypothermia, and the associated shivering ("a chill"), but has gotten confused with the common cold and the various influenza strains at some stage?

My aunt once told me that you get UTI's from walking around in shoes without your socks on. Apparantly because your feet get cold or exposed or something.

That passports must be valid for 3-6 months after your date of return travel.

Not for many countries including all of Europe and the US at least. If you aren't sure, check the foreign office website or immigration for the country you are visiting rather than seeking dodgy advice from a load of randoms on here.

Thanks keith.
That link makes them sound even more bleurgh

The too cold to snow thing is true!

If air is too cold it cannot hold the moisture required to make snow.

Sheep are stupid and all the same. No they are just as individual as humans and have their own personalities.

According to a museum guide in Russia, sitting on a granite floor there will affect your fertility (he told me off quite severely for sitting on the ground). I assume that's not true...

A few grown women and I had a lengthy discussion about postponing periods, and medication that did that. I was on med that stopped ovulation as a side effect, thus no periods. One reply was that she wouldn't be happy with that because where would it (the blood) all go?
I tried to explain that the period is triggered by hormone changes after ovulation, and the med stopped all of it, so there was no it, to go anywhere, but she wasn't convinced.
In fact quite a few of the women seemed really ignorant regarding their own cycle, and thought that each period that was missed was 'stored' and that was bad for you!
Slightly off topic but a thing said round here really irritates me. When talking about the weather ppl will day "It has to rain today" instead of "It is supposed to rain today"
Why?? Why does it have to rain? It doesn't have to rain! Who's going to make it rain if it decides not to rain?

No idea why I find it so annoying!

That a married woman's "legal surname" is that of her husband even if she chooses to call herself something else.
Just no. Not in the UK anyway. I've asked the people spouting this twaddle to reger me to the applicable legislation. Strangely, they cannot as it doesn't exist.

I once knew a woman who was diagnosed with cancer (early diagnosis, very treatable) who claimed her consultant had told her not to stop smoking as the 'shock' would make the cancer worse

That a barrister is "higher" than a solicitor. That really annoys me!

That fractures and breaks are different. I've heard that both is worse than the other, so there isn't even a consensus.

No. If you fracture a bone or break a bone it's just a different word for the same thing.

There are different types of fracture/break so you can have one that is a worse type, but you can't tell that just because it was described as broken or fractured.

Very sorry OP but pee is usually sterile. I have this from a parasitologist who collected a lot of it professionally.