Black Belt Jones
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Barker always remained silent on his inspiration for the Candyman, AFAIK.
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Disgruntledgoat
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Well, it's not cast iron certain. But birth defects as a result of use of the anti morning sickness drug Thalidomide were fairly well documented, leading to it's discontinuation.
If your mum took Thalidomide you may not have any elbows to lick.
Those cases were a travesty and I dont believe the drug companies did not know the side effects before they released the drug.
Corporate greed again
Really? was meant to question the sensitivity (or lack) of the comment.
d34noj
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It wasnt a comment it was a joke! (Albeit one in bad taste)
We can agree on that.
Black Belt Jones
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Thalidomide was never available in the US largely due to the efforts of one woman, Frances Kelsey, a pharmacologist for the FDA who consistently rejected it out of safety concerns. This took a lot of backbone as the FDA in those days was nowhere near the regulatory jugganaut it is now, the power lay with the pharma companies who had already marketed the drug (and were making a lot of money) in 40 other countries.
www.smithsonianmag.com
The Woman Who Stood Between America and a Generation of 'Thalidomide Babies'
How the United States escaped a national tragedy in the 1960s
I always suspect this is a bit like when a kid brags about their goldfish being 12 years old because they're blissfully unaware that their mum has been flushing the dead one down the loo every other week and buying a new one from Pets At Home.
Verified apparently.
evertondotcom
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Did you enjoy the 360 tour then?
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
In Australia you can still buy 'full strength' IRN BRU not the weak cats p the UK have had foisted on them by the sugar police.
Source: 'Bobby the Jock' from down the road.
Source: 'Bobby the Jock' from down the road.
Bwana
Player Valuation: £8m
That mushroom grows mainly in south-western Finland. It's true that almost every year some poor b*st*rd does eat those and, well, dies with a liver etc failure. Lately those victims have however been comin' from abroad, Thailand and so on. They're brought here to pick the stuff from the forest, berries and such for 30 Euros/day...
Just finished the biology-course with my 5th graders and hammered in hard the lesson "do not pick/eat the mushrooms you don't recognise".
Makaronilaatikko with ketchup is a real treat...
Weird math fact.
"e" is the number for which e^x = the slope of the graph of e^x for any x (approximately 2.7183)
"pi" is the ratio of the a circles radius to its circumference (approximately 3.1416)
"i" is the "imaginary unit", it's defined as the square root of -1 (has no approximation, as it is not a "real" number).
But if you combine these seemingly unrelated concepts as e^(i*pi) you get -1. This is called "Euler's Identity."
Generally it's written like this:
As celebrated on the Simpsons:
And on a tattoo:
"e" is the number for which e^x = the slope of the graph of e^x for any x (approximately 2.7183)
"pi" is the ratio of the a circles radius to its circumference (approximately 3.1416)
"i" is the "imaginary unit", it's defined as the square root of -1 (has no approximation, as it is not a "real" number).
But if you combine these seemingly unrelated concepts as e^(i*pi) you get -1. This is called "Euler's Identity."
Generally it's written like this:
As celebrated on the Simpsons:
And on a tattoo:
That's fine, but can you explain salmiakki? I tried it and once and couldn't believe it was something people would voluntarily eat. Is it something that most everyone in Finland likes? Or is it something only some people will eat, like blue cheese in the US or stinky tofu in China?