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On Friday, October 20, 2017 at 7:58:50 AM UTC-7, AMuzi wrote:
On 10/20/2017 9:49 AM, Joerg wrote: On 2017-10-20 00:26, John B. wrote: On Thu, 19 Oct 2017 09:57:27 -0700, Joerg wrote: On 2017-10-18 23:40, John B. wrote: On Thu, 19 Oct 2017 07:39:00 +0700, John B. wrote: On Wed, 18 Oct 2017 07:57:02 -0700, Joerg wrote: On 2017-10-17 20:52, John B. wrote: On Tue, 17 Oct 2017 07:47:55 -0700, Joerg wrote: On 2017-10-16 18:59, John B. wrote: On Mon, 16 Oct 2017 07:52:51 -0700, Joerg wrote: On 2017-10-16 04:16, John B. wrote: On Sun, 15 Oct 2017 10:02:00 -0700, Joerg wrote: On 2017-10-09 21:09, Tim McNamara wrote: [...] And a walk is inexpensive. Not really when seen per mile. I walk about two miles every day so that's around 700mi/year. A pair of $30 sports shoes wears out within a year so 4c/mile. I get more than that out of a road bike rear tire. Sandals don't wear out that fast for whatever reason but can't be used much in winter. Get rid of the shoes. The feet are self healing and will grow to accommodate even black top pavement. I would add, before you start you say it is impossible, that Zola Budd set the world 5,000 metre record running barefoot. Her mile best of 4:17.57 in 1985, still stands as the British record. Barefooted. Oh, I could, since I already walk and bicycle with sandals all summer long. Problem is, without any shoes one carries the dirt into the house because you can't switch feet at the entrance door, and that will make the missus grumpy (rightfully so). Especially when coming back from a dirt trail. How primitive. The Thais, who were essentially shoeless in years gone by solved the problem by placed a tub of water outside the door and washed their feet before going in the house. So the foot fungus from the first person is spread to all the others? Foot fungus is very rare in places where people don't wear shoes :-) Nope. People walking barefoot in places where others do so as well are the ones getting infected. The risk is usually highest in wet areas. This is one of the reasons the US miltary encourages soldiers to wear "shower shoes" when taking a shower. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15864252 Do some more reading. Candida is a strain of fungus that can cause an infection in your skin, among other locations. In normal conditions, your skin may host small amounts of this fungus. Problems arise when it begins to multiply and creates an overgrowth... The overriding conditions that encourage fungus growth is "The fungus thrives in warm, moist, and sweaty conditions." But those canny Thais don't wash their feet in the common tub. what they do is dip some clean water out of the tub and slosh it over their feet to get them clean. That's going to help a whole lot when someone has just stepped into a blob of gooey sap from a pine tree. When I come home from MTB rides I often have that under my shoes. Since they get swapped in the garage, no problem. Strange that it doesn't seem to be a problem in actual practice isn't it? Or, at least in all the years that I've lived in Asia I've never seen it be a problem. But more to the point I grew up in New England where the pine tree was, perhaps, the most common tree and unless you actually climbed a pine tree we never got any sap on your feet. It doesn't just drip off the trees to cover the ground. But maybe California pine trees are different. Addendum: I came across this today. Apparently California is different :-) http://www.ehow.com/info_8691222_sti...e-needles.html Pine needles may also be covered in a sticky substance caused by disease and infestation, such as aphids, which are attracted to pine trees. According to the University of California's Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources, "Aphids are small, soft-bodied insects with long, slender mouth parts that they use to pierce stems, leaves, and other tender plant parts and suck out plant fluids." In addition to causing openings in pine trees which may cause sap to leak, the aphids themselves emit a sticky substance called honeydew. I came home from a long singletrack ride yesterday. The last couple of miles are on asphalt and both tires emitted the usual lip-smacking sounds. Had to stop before the garage, whip out the trusty old Swiss Army knife and scrape the pine sap blobs out of the knobbies. Just another normal day in paradise. When helping another MTB rider fix a flat the drill here is to never just grab a wheel with both hands without looking first. Goat's head thorns are the main reason but also sap. Some kinds of sap won't come off the skin with just soap and water. Hmmm.... immigrate. BTDT. There is always some hair in the soup, everywhere. ... No sticky pine globs of goat head thorns in many parts of the world :-) However, only four snakes in the US are poisonous. Then you move to places like Australia and no goat's head thorns but just about every snake is poisonous. Or you move to the Caribbean where there is no winter but then cloud come up and suddenly you bike route looks like this: https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset...70_nou pscale 'only four' sounds so benign and distant. Unless your girlfriend's land is bordered by rocky hills where these guys hang out in the sun: http://dnr.wi.gov/topic/EndangeredRe...ode=ARADE02040 Somebody named it 'horridus' for a reason. (I'm not discounting Australia's famous killer fauna) I spent perhaps 5 years collecting snakes and lizards and only saw one single rattlesnake in that entire time. Perhaps you're a reptile-o-phobe. |
Bicycling & health benefits of?
On Friday, October 20, 2017 at 3:48:54 PM UTC+1, Joerg wrote:
However, only four snakes in the US are poisonous. Then you move to places like Australia and no goat's head thorns but just about every snake is poisonous. Or you move to the Caribbean where there is no winter but then cloud come up and suddenly you bike route looks like this: https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset...70_nou pscale When you quote the Hufferpuffer you should fact-check every single word, or you will look as pompously ignorant as they are. ***Snakes are not poisonous. Snakes are venomous. A poisonous animal or plant produces toxins that are harmful when the animal or plant is touched or eaten, whereas a venomous snake or other creature is able to inject venom by means of its fangs, spines, or stingers.*** *** Among the snakes I've kept as pets are molesnakes, a luislang (an African constrictor, very affectionate when it is hungry), green and black mambas (handle by the tail only!), puffadders and various grass snakes. I was offered a black tree snake once but my innate good sense and my girlfriend intervened; no antidote, see, and you die painfully over about eight minutes. I've also kept tarantula (harmless if you're a calm person -- they used to sleep in my pockets), piranha (see The Piranha Pool Party in Hell, Connecticut at http://coolmainpress.com/ajwriting/t...l-connecticut/ for what happened to the poor little darlings), and so on. Currently I have a family of hedgehogs (well-mannered porcupines) and a family of foxes that live in the orchard behind the stables. I'd like to keep a bonobo (sort of extra-intelligent chimpanzee) again; I had four in sequence called MiniAndre I through IV but the administrative kerfuffle and fighting off the idiot animal-righters would take an horrendous amount of time. I took mine as babies at gunpoint off bush butchers who caged them to slaughter them for meat, but you can't make those dim bimbos understand that by releasing an animal who is used to a toilet and wearing a suit and sitting in a chair next to mine in board meetings back into the wild is simply a death sentence. Andre Jute Send three and sixpence, we're going to a dance. (What a message sent by word of mouth, man to man along a chain, arrived as.. The original was, Send reinforcements, we're going to advance.) |
Bicycling & health benefits of?
On Friday, October 20, 2017 at 3:38:24 PM UTC+1, (PeteCresswell) wrote:
Per Andre Jute: I went off him when I discovered that his idea of a gourmet meal was a hamburger. He died at 52 while out jogging. Not exactly a recommendation. I cannot cite, but my recollection is that he was afflicted with genetically-induced high cholesterol ("Familial Hypercholesterolemia"). My brother had it, didn't quite make it to 45. My impression was - at least back then - that, if you've got it, you're dead meat. -- Pete Cresswell Be interesting to know though, how long Mr Fixx Snr lived, indexed against life expectancy for males when he was born (nod of thanks to Tom for the context reminder). Andre Jute Demographic is these days the most exciting part of economic philosophy |
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On 2017-10-20 08:31, wrote:
On Friday, October 20, 2017 at 12:23:57 AM UTC-7, John B. wrote: On Thu, 19 Oct 2017 12:06:57 -0400, "(PeteCresswell)" wrote: Per John B.: As I told Joerg, just wash your feet :-) I don't buy it when it comes to carpets. Bare floors, maybe... but feet will still be damp after "Washing" and that will affect the carpet over time. Quotes because I strongly suspect "Washing" = "Quick rinse with clear room-temperature water". Well, if you have polished mahogany floors, or terrazzo, floors in your abode and you wash your feet before you enter you won't have problems with your carpet. Carpets also add to the servants work load with all that vacuuming and frequent visits by the carpet cleaning company. They will applaud you when you get rid of them. I have come to the conclusion that hardwood floors with area rugs are much better than wall to wall carpets. These wall to wall crap accumulators are nothing but trouble and for no added comfort. That perception will change when our bodies start giving out and we need canes or walkers. Or when Fido and Fluffy duke it out and the area rugs go sailing for the impteenth time. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ |
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On Fri, 20 Oct 2017 07:49:01 -0700, Joerg
wrote: On 2017-10-20 00:26, John B. wrote: On Thu, 19 Oct 2017 09:57:27 -0700, Joerg wrote: On 2017-10-18 23:40, John B. wrote: On Thu, 19 Oct 2017 07:39:00 +0700, John B. wrote: On Wed, 18 Oct 2017 07:57:02 -0700, Joerg wrote: On 2017-10-17 20:52, John B. wrote: On Tue, 17 Oct 2017 07:47:55 -0700, Joerg wrote: On 2017-10-16 18:59, John B. wrote: On Mon, 16 Oct 2017 07:52:51 -0700, Joerg wrote: On 2017-10-16 04:16, John B. wrote: On Sun, 15 Oct 2017 10:02:00 -0700, Joerg wrote: On 2017-10-09 21:09, Tim McNamara wrote: [...] And a walk is inexpensive. Not really when seen per mile. I walk about two miles every day so that's around 700mi/year. A pair of $30 sports shoes wears out within a year so 4c/mile. I get more than that out of a road bike rear tire. Sandals don't wear out that fast for whatever reason but can't be used much in winter. Get rid of the shoes. The feet are self healing and will grow to accommodate even black top pavement. I would add, before you start you say it is impossible, that Zola Budd set the world 5,000 metre record running barefoot. Her mile best of 4:17.57 in 1985, still stands as the British record. Barefooted. Oh, I could, since I already walk and bicycle with sandals all summer long. Problem is, without any shoes one carries the dirt into the house because you can't switch feet at the entrance door, and that will make the missus grumpy (rightfully so). Especially when coming back from a dirt trail. How primitive. The Thais, who were essentially shoeless in years gone by solved the problem by placed a tub of water outside the door and washed their feet before going in the house. So the foot fungus from the first person is spread to all the others? Foot fungus is very rare in places where people don't wear shoes :-) Nope. People walking barefoot in places where others do so as well are the ones getting infected. The risk is usually highest in wet areas. This is one of the reasons the US miltary encourages soldiers to wear "shower shoes" when taking a shower. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15864252 Do some more reading. Candida is a strain of fungus that can cause an infection in your skin, among other locations. In normal conditions, your skin may host small amounts of this fungus. Problems arise when it begins to multiply and creates an overgrowth... The overriding conditions that encourage fungus growth is "The fungus thrives in warm, moist, and sweaty conditions." But those canny Thais don't wash their feet in the common tub. what they do is dip some clean water out of the tub and slosh it over their feet to get them clean. That's going to help a whole lot when someone has just stepped into a blob of gooey sap from a pine tree. When I come home from MTB rides I often have that under my shoes. Since they get swapped in the garage, no problem. Strange that it doesn't seem to be a problem in actual practice isn't it? Or, at least in all the years that I've lived in Asia I've never seen it be a problem. But more to the point I grew up in New England where the pine tree was, perhaps, the most common tree and unless you actually climbed a pine tree we never got any sap on your feet. It doesn't just drip off the trees to cover the ground. But maybe California pine trees are different. Addendum: I came across this today. Apparently California is different :-) http://www.ehow.com/info_8691222_sti...e-needles.html Pine needles may also be covered in a sticky substance caused by disease and infestation, such as aphids, which are attracted to pine trees. According to the University of California's Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources, "Aphids are small, soft-bodied insects with long, slender mouth parts that they use to pierce stems, leaves, and other tender plant parts and suck out plant fluids." In addition to causing openings in pine trees which may cause sap to leak, the aphids themselves emit a sticky substance called honeydew. I came home from a long singletrack ride yesterday. The last couple of miles are on asphalt and both tires emitted the usual lip-smacking sounds. Had to stop before the garage, whip out the trusty old Swiss Army knife and scrape the pine sap blobs out of the knobbies. Just another normal day in paradise. When helping another MTB rider fix a flat the drill here is to never just grab a wheel with both hands without looking first. Goat's head thorns are the main reason but also sap. Some kinds of sap won't come off the skin with just soap and water. Hmmm.... immigrate. BTDT. There is always some hair in the soup, everywhere. ... No sticky pine globs of goat head thorns in many parts of the world :-) However, only four snakes in the US are poisonous. Then you move to places like Australia and no goat's head thorns but just about every snake is poisonous. Or you move to the Caribbean where there is no And Australian snake bite fatalities have been low. between four to six deaths a year from snake bites. Note that annual bicycle deaths in California is in the 125 range. winter but then cloud come up and suddenly you bike route looks like this: https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset...70_nou pscale But from your posts here you seem to glory in riding through mud and water. Got the disc brakes and all the fixings. I would have thought that a flooded road would be duck's soup for you. And it would get your feet clean :-) Of course, if you are really worried you could attach floats. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb6ZeiWkxRM -- Cheers, John B. |
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On Fri, 20 Oct 2017 11:44:37 -0700, Joerg
wrote: On 2017-10-20 08:31, wrote: On Friday, October 20, 2017 at 12:23:57 AM UTC-7, John B. wrote: On Thu, 19 Oct 2017 12:06:57 -0400, "(PeteCresswell)" wrote: Per John B.: As I told Joerg, just wash your feet :-) I don't buy it when it comes to carpets. Bare floors, maybe... but feet will still be damp after "Washing" and that will affect the carpet over time. Quotes because I strongly suspect "Washing" = "Quick rinse with clear room-temperature water". Well, if you have polished mahogany floors, or terrazzo, floors in your abode and you wash your feet before you enter you won't have problems with your carpet. Carpets also add to the servants work load with all that vacuuming and frequent visits by the carpet cleaning company. They will applaud you when you get rid of them. I have come to the conclusion that hardwood floors with area rugs are much better than wall to wall carpets. These wall to wall crap accumulators are nothing but trouble and for no added comfort. That perception will change when our bodies start giving out and we need canes or walkers. Or when Fido and Fluffy duke it out and the area rugs go sailing for the impteenth time. Well, I'm 85 (this month) and my wife is 72 and so far we haven't had any problems... terrazzo floors on the ground floor and polished mahogany on the second. No canes or walkers yet... -- Cheers, John B. |
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On Friday, October 20, 2017 at 8:38:37 AM UTC-7, wrote:
On Friday, October 20, 2017 at 7:58:50 AM UTC-7, AMuzi wrote: On 10/20/2017 9:49 AM, Joerg wrote: On 2017-10-20 00:26, John B. wrote: On Thu, 19 Oct 2017 09:57:27 -0700, Joerg wrote: On 2017-10-18 23:40, John B. wrote: On Thu, 19 Oct 2017 07:39:00 +0700, John B. wrote: On Wed, 18 Oct 2017 07:57:02 -0700, Joerg wrote: On 2017-10-17 20:52, John B. wrote: On Tue, 17 Oct 2017 07:47:55 -0700, Joerg wrote: On 2017-10-16 18:59, John B. wrote: On Mon, 16 Oct 2017 07:52:51 -0700, Joerg wrote: On 2017-10-16 04:16, John B. wrote: On Sun, 15 Oct 2017 10:02:00 -0700, Joerg wrote: On 2017-10-09 21:09, Tim McNamara wrote: [...] And a walk is inexpensive. Not really when seen per mile. I walk about two miles every day so that's around 700mi/year. A pair of $30 sports shoes wears out within a year so 4c/mile. I get more than that out of a road bike rear tire. Sandals don't wear out that fast for whatever reason but can't be used much in winter. Get rid of the shoes. The feet are self healing and will grow to accommodate even black top pavement. I would add, before you start you say it is impossible, that Zola Budd set the world 5,000 metre record running barefoot. Her mile best of 4:17.57 in 1985, still stands as the British record. Barefooted. Oh, I could, since I already walk and bicycle with sandals all summer long. Problem is, without any shoes one carries the dirt into the house because you can't switch feet at the entrance door, and that will make the missus grumpy (rightfully so). Especially when coming back from a dirt trail. How primitive. The Thais, who were essentially shoeless in years gone by solved the problem by placed a tub of water outside the door and washed their feet before going in the house. So the foot fungus from the first person is spread to all the others? Foot fungus is very rare in places where people don't wear shoes :-) Nope. People walking barefoot in places where others do so as well are the ones getting infected. The risk is usually highest in wet areas. This is one of the reasons the US miltary encourages soldiers to wear "shower shoes" when taking a shower. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15864252 Do some more reading. Candida is a strain of fungus that can cause an infection in your skin, among other locations. In normal conditions, your skin may host small amounts of this fungus. Problems arise when it begins to multiply and creates an overgrowth... The overriding conditions that encourage fungus growth is "The fungus thrives in warm, moist, and sweaty conditions." But those canny Thais don't wash their feet in the common tub. what they do is dip some clean water out of the tub and slosh it over their feet to get them clean. That's going to help a whole lot when someone has just stepped into a blob of gooey sap from a pine tree. When I come home from MTB rides I often have that under my shoes. Since they get swapped in the garage, no problem. Strange that it doesn't seem to be a problem in actual practice isn't it? Or, at least in all the years that I've lived in Asia I've never seen it be a problem. But more to the point I grew up in New England where the pine tree was, perhaps, the most common tree and unless you actually climbed a pine tree we never got any sap on your feet. It doesn't just drip off the trees to cover the ground. But maybe California pine trees are different. Addendum: I came across this today. Apparently California is different :-) http://www.ehow.com/info_8691222_sti...e-needles.html Pine needles may also be covered in a sticky substance caused by disease and infestation, such as aphids, which are attracted to pine trees. According to the University of California's Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources, "Aphids are small, soft-bodied insects with long, slender mouth parts that they use to pierce stems, leaves, and other tender plant parts and suck out plant fluids." In addition to causing openings in pine trees which may cause sap to leak, the aphids themselves emit a sticky substance called honeydew. I came home from a long singletrack ride yesterday. The last couple of miles are on asphalt and both tires emitted the usual lip-smacking sounds. Had to stop before the garage, whip out the trusty old Swiss Army knife and scrape the pine sap blobs out of the knobbies. Just another normal day in paradise. When helping another MTB rider fix a flat the drill here is to never just grab a wheel with both hands without looking first. Goat's head thorns are the main reason but also sap. Some kinds of sap won't come off the skin with just soap and water. Hmmm.... immigrate. BTDT. There is always some hair in the soup, everywhere. ... No sticky pine globs of goat head thorns in many parts of the world :-) However, only four snakes in the US are poisonous. Then you move to places like Australia and no goat's head thorns but just about every snake is poisonous. Or you move to the Caribbean where there is no winter but then cloud come up and suddenly you bike route looks like this: https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset...70_nou pscale 'only four' sounds so benign and distant. Unless your girlfriend's land is bordered by rocky hills where these guys hang out in the sun: http://dnr.wi.gov/topic/EndangeredRe...ode=ARADE02040 Somebody named it 'horridus' for a reason. (I'm not discounting Australia's famous killer fauna) I spent perhaps 5 years collecting snakes and lizards and only saw one single rattlesnake in that entire time. Perhaps you're a reptile-o-phobe. You were trying too hard. Had you been concentrating on doing something else, you would have almost stepped on several in that time, IME |
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I don't remember Dr White, but I remember Jim Fixx, the prophet of jogging. I went off him when I discovered that his idea of a gourmet meal was a hamburger. He died at 52 while out jogging. Not exactly a recommendation. What age did his dad reach? Sorry, I thought it was well known. His dad also died of a heart attack. Right around the same age IIRC. |
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On Saturday, October 21, 2017 at 3:02:37 AM UTC+1, Doug Landau wrote:
I don't remember Dr White, but I remember Jim Fixx, the prophet of jogging. I went off him when I discovered that his idea of a gourmet meal was a hamburger. He died at 52 while out jogging. Not exactly a recommendation. What age did his dad reach? Sorry, I thought it was well known. His dad also died of a heart attack. Right around the same age IIRC. That proves that genetics are better forecasters than tree rings and tea leaves. But now I'm wondering if his jogging didn't aggravate his genetic predisposition. Andre Jute The genes will get you |
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