Global Warming

[vo1v0d]

My major problem is a bad back. Thank you for asking.

[Roubignol]

Originally Posted by vo1v0d

My major problem is a bad back. Thank you for asking.

The first time I had my back blocked was when I was 17 years old.
The second time was when I was 29 years old.
The second time I thought that my life was ruined.
It was so painful.
I didn't understand why, because I was fit and ridding a lot by bicycle.

I'll not explain all the story, but one day I understood that the problem was... my old mattress.

I've a cervical hernia since 25 years after a brutal frontal car crash.
I suffered a lot but found a solution.
I put a thin board of wood of the same size of my pillow ... under my pillow. The first night I thought I'd die. Pain was very intense. But after one month, I could sleep again like a baby in good health.

So my advices are:

1) buy a new mattress if yours is older than 10 to 15 years.
2) lose weight
3) bend your knees when lifting heavy things. If you can... NEVER lift heavy things.
4) do the correct exercises to muscle your back with light weights.
5) have a good position in front of your computer or at job.

x) good luck.

[vo1v0d]

Thanks XY. Three different problems all started when I was 25. Father was unwell and fell off his chair at my sisters wedding. To preserve his dignity and forgetting the cost to myself as he was 30 ounds heavier than me I just grabbed him underneath the arms and picked him up like he was a baby and sat him back on the chair before anybody could notice.
I managed to slip a disc when I was twenty pounds under my perfect weight, possibly by sneezing.
My pal was in hospital with a fucked back and the specialist who was treating him had written two books on the subject which my pal borrowed from the hospital library.
When he saw the specialist he said "You dont really know anything about back proboems, do you?" Reply........."No."
A tea tray is now the heaviest thing I lift.
And I sleep on nine inches of memory foam, alone.
thanks and luck to you

[Arturo2nd]

This from the Guardian's reporting on the latest U.N. Report

From coral reefs flickering out beneath the oceans to rainforests desiccating into savannahs, nature is being destroyed at a rate tens to hundreds of times higher than the average over the past 10m years, according to the UN global assessment report.

The biomass of wild mammals has fallen by 82%, natural ecosystems have lost about half their area and a million species are at risk of extinction – all largely as a result of human actions, said the study, compiled over three years by more than 450 scientists and diplomats.

The authors studied over 15,000 peer reviewed studies and the final report was also subjected to rigorous review prior to release. We are like a cancer on the planet's biomass.

https://www.theguardian.com/environm...CMP=GTUS_email

[bowlinggreen]

Originally Posted by Arturo2nd

This from the Guardian's reporting on the latest U.N. Report



The authors studied over 15,000 peer reviewed studies and the final report was also subjected to rigorous review prior to release. We are like a cancer on the planet's biomass.

https://www.theguardian.com/environm...CMP=GTUS_email

Not a cancer, just another natural phenomenon, an overly successful species that is likely to exhaust its habitat and fall from primacy.

You may take many other species with you, but that is natural too. The dinosaur-killing comet did a lot worse.

If that is not natural, then how do you explain lemmings?

[Sir Honkers]

I have to say BG, you look much prettier since you shaved.

[Arturo2nd]

Originally Posted by bowlinggreen

Not a cancer, just another natural phenomenon, an overly successful species that is likely to exhaust its habitat and fall from primacy.

Isn't cancer a natural phenomenon?

[bowlinggreen]

Originally Posted by loosegoose

I have to say BG, you look much prettier since you shaved.

I've decided to retire my Chewie avatar in honor of Peter Mayhew's passing. Was thinking of what to use instead, put Lorena in there for now. Maybe I'll keep her permanently, I like seeing her face when I first pop in to VEF.

Originally Posted by Arturo2nd

Isn't cancer a natural phenomenon?

Good point.

[tsunamiSD]

Greenland Sees Huge Ice Melt Amid Heat Wave was the title in my local paper.

More than 10 billion tons (11 billion U.S. tons) of ice was lost to the oceans by surface melt on Wednesday alone, creating a net mass ice loss of some 197 billion tons (217 billion U.S. tons) from Greenland in July.

Scientists: Europe Heat Wave Tied to Man-Made Warming

In countries where millions of people sweltered through the heat wave, temperatures would have been 1.5 to 3 degrees Celsius (2.7 to 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit) lower in a world without human-induced climate change, the study said.
Global warming is also making such extreme heat more frequent, the study by experts from France, the Netherlands, Britain, Switzerland and Germany found.

[bowlinggreen]

Well, if this continues, England can grow grapes and olives while the native peoples of France and other southern areas can emigrate to Greenland and grow wheat and farm cattle. Those who stay can grow tobacco and cotton.

By that time, Italy and Greece will only be good for date trees and camels.