Author Topic: Homeopathy is offially bunk!  (Read 3903 times)

ElyDave

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PaulF

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Re: Homeopathy is offially bunk!
« Reply #1 on: 29 October, 2019, 09:58:38 pm »
I read the article and felt better so perhaps it works?

;D

Pingu

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Re: Homeopathy is offially bunk!
« Reply #2 on: 29 October, 2019, 10:06:45 pm »
It only works if you just read the first letter.

ian

Re: Homeopathy is offially bunk!
« Reply #3 on: 29 October, 2019, 10:38:16 pm »
Miller Genuine Draft, despite being a homoeopathic beer, is quite an efficacious diuretic. Well, it is if you have the dread misfortune of drinking an entire case of it because there's nothing else at the party and you're young and foolish and the girl with the magnificent constellations of freckles you've tried to orbit doesn't share your celestial ambitions.

One day I will write my utterly mundane memoirs.

Jaded

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Re: Homeopathy is offially bunk!
« Reply #4 on: 29 October, 2019, 10:49:08 pm »
As long as you don’t write under a misleading pseudonym you are guaranteed one reader.
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Kim

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Re: Homeopathy is offially bunk!
« Reply #5 on: 29 October, 2019, 11:05:38 pm »
I'm fairly sure that they're already posting under a misleading pseudonym...

Gattopardo

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Re: Homeopathy is offially bunk!
« Reply #6 on: 29 October, 2019, 11:49:30 pm »
I died from a chronic underdose.  :'(

ElyDave

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Re: Homeopathy is offially bunk!
« Reply #7 on: 30 October, 2019, 06:15:23 am »
But only in a homeopathic sense
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ElyDave

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Re: Homeopathy is offially bunk!
« Reply #8 on: 30 October, 2019, 06:17:24 am »
Miller Genuine Draft, despite being a homoeopathic beer, is quite an efficacious diuretic. Well, it is if you have the dread misfortune of drinking an entire case of it because there's nothing else at the party and you're young and foolish and the girl with the magnificent constellations of freckles you've tried to orbit doesn't share your celestial ambitions.

One day I will write my utterly mundane memoirs.

I think I have the ultimate homeopathic beer, a freebie from Ocado yesterday, fizzy hopped water.

I would ask if that is really a thing, but it seems so.
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Re: Homeopathy is offially bunk!
« Reply #9 on: 30 October, 2019, 08:12:34 am »
On a Tuesday, our canteen menu features homeopathic beef lasagna.
Yes really.
Vegans would love it.

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Homeopathy is offially bunk!
« Reply #10 on: 30 October, 2019, 08:17:14 am »
I accidentally bought homeopathic tea. Asdal's own, I didn't expect much and get even less. Hang on, if it's homeopathic and there's less, shouldn't it be stronger? Anyway, two bags to a cup (no, Roger, not like that!) and it's... hot and brown.
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Re: Homeopathy is offially bunk!
« Reply #11 on: 30 October, 2019, 08:40:57 am »
Back before we knew any better we picked a vet who was a stark raving homoeopath. He damn near killed one of our dogs - "treated" her for an ear infection and left her with epilepsy.

Take them all out and shoot them. Not with homoeopathic bullets, either.
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

Jaded

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Re: Homeopathy is offially bunk!
« Reply #12 on: 30 October, 2019, 08:48:05 am »
I just made some homeopathic tea.


Forgot to put the teabag in the cup  :-[
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ElyDave

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Re: Homeopathy is offially bunk!
« Reply #13 on: 30 October, 2019, 08:49:28 am »
what does homeopathic water look like, and is it better at thirst quenching?
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Re: Homeopathy is offially bunk!
« Reply #14 on: 30 October, 2019, 12:45:58 pm »
It only works if you just read the first letter.
Classic misunderstanding. Even the first letter needs to be missing for homeopathic gobbledigook!

Gattopardo

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Re: Homeopathy is offially bunk!
« Reply #15 on: 30 October, 2019, 01:23:45 pm »
what does homeopathic water look like, and is it better at thirst quenching?

Ask a hydrophobe.

I am gaining much enjoy from the fact that other people use the term homeopathic beer.  My mates don't get it.

Gattopardo

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Re: Homeopathy is offially bunk!
« Reply #16 on: 30 October, 2019, 01:27:27 pm »
I just made some homeopathic tea.


Forgot to put the teabag in the cup  :-[

Isn't that homeopathic gin?

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Re: Homeopathy is offially bunk!
« Reply #17 on: 30 October, 2019, 02:52:54 pm »


I just made some homeopathic tea.


Forgot to put the teabag in the cup  :-[

Isn't that homeopathic gin?

It's only homeopathic gin if you forgot to put *gin* in the cup...
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hellymedic

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Re: Homeopathy is offially bunk!
« Reply #18 on: 30 October, 2019, 03:04:20 pm »
On a Tuesday, our canteen menu features homeopathic beef lasagna.
Yes really.
Vegans would love it.

Heinz tinned soups contain only TINY quantities of the meat after which they are named. Cream of Chicken Soup is a whopping 3% chicken...

Re: Homeopathy is offially bunk!
« Reply #19 on: 30 October, 2019, 04:04:19 pm »
On a Tuesday, our canteen menu features homeopathic beef lasagna.
Yes really.
Vegans would love it.

Heinz tinned soups contain only TINY quantities of the meat after which they are named. Cream of Chicken Soup is a whopping 3% chicken...

If it was labelled as milk is it would be "whole chicken".

Re: Homeopathy is offially bunk!
« Reply #20 on: 30 October, 2019, 04:47:01 pm »
What about those water bottles with fruit printed on them? Very nearly homeopathic but they do put a big premium on them.

Actually that's very much the homeopathy way. Expensive water isn't it!

hellymedic

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Re: Homeopathy is offially bunk!
« Reply #21 on: 30 October, 2019, 04:59:47 pm »
That 'water' contained a LOT  of sugar (not at homeopathic levels) before the Sugar Tax was introduced...

The 'no added sugar' versions might contain no sugar but Volvic 'Touch of Fruit' strawberry flavour is 4.6% sugar (Sugar Tax comes in at 5%).

This is similar to half-strength apple juice.

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Homeopathy is offially bunk!
« Reply #22 on: 30 October, 2019, 05:55:53 pm »
Homeopathic drugs usually contain quite a lot of sugar and a touch of alcohol. They might also contain herbal stuff which once in a while might even do you some good, by chance. But mostly sugary alcohol. A prescription cocktail.
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Re: Homeopathy is offially bunk!
« Reply #23 on: 30 October, 2019, 06:58:15 pm »
I wonder what colour traffic lights fruit would have if they joined the supermarket package labelling of nutritional infusion? Can you imagine the traffic light guy m for sugar on apples or grapes? Fruit would possibly have bright red for sugar.

ElyDave

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Re: Homeopathy is offially bunk!
« Reply #24 on: 30 October, 2019, 07:10:59 pm »
And nuts bright red for fat
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