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He or she I've been on holiday. Yet Monica has still to answer the simple question of why she's a nutritionist and not a dietician if the two are so alike. It's really not a trick question. I could question that biog Monica posted because there are some serious questions to be asked about it but that'd be to diverge from the nub of the issue. I'm simply asking direct simple questions but just like if you question someone's religious beliefs (at the risk of really veering off topic) those beliefs don't stand up to scrutiny so the only defence is indignance and refusing to answer said questions. I rest my case

Monica's comments would surely be better if instead of or alongside said passion she could provide some answers. I can't think of a single instance when I've wished a health professional was more passionate rather than say sober and scientific. But I'll bear in mind the Monica approach next time I'm at the doctors - Doctor Anu: You've got acute lumbago and sciatica so I'm prescribing painkillers and recommend you get some physiotherapy. Me: And how will that help? Doctor Anu: I don't answer questions from people I don't like. Me: You don't have to like me, I'm just asking how it works. Doctor: That Sean Mcgamadamadingdong's nice isn't he?

Merrifields on grove vale, opposite the library. They'll make shoes for you and everything.

So you won't answer my question Monica? Case closed.

I'm sorry I've just crapped my colon out laughing at some of the woo on here. I wonder what nutritional therapy can do to help? Once again Monica I await your answer to the question as to why you are a nutritionist not a dietician if there is little or no difference between them? Imagine if you posted here as a dietician, everyone would respect your views and advice and you wouldn't have to defend your opinions and all that. At the very least it would make your life easier so why not go down that route? Oh and I'd love to see some links to the Lancet articles on nutritional therapy. And blaming Big Pharma is a bit of a last refuge isn't it? Also something of a red herring as you point out drugs that were tested, found to have a side effect and ultimately banned. Unlike any woo practice which is untested and unregulated so harder to stamp out the genuinely harmful from the benignly batty. (Also worth pointing out that Denise Mortimore has a PhD in genetics, so not really much use when it comes to nutritional gubbins but this is all beside the point.)

The papoose, or sling, is very practical. But I have to say I find it a very emasculating look. I now favour the sling on the back so one can carry your child like a rucksack, much more manly.

Where will the forumites be congregating to watch the game? Surely you won't be watching it from in the bar? I ask not because I'd want to fratenise with you people but so that should the game go dull I can play spot-the-forumite;-)

I'm not throwing anything in anyone's face but asking a simple question. If there is little or no difference between a dietician and a nutritionist why not become the dietician that is regulated within the NHS rather than a nutritionist which is regulated by BANT, a voluntary regulation scheme and a body that has no-one on its board with a qualification above BSc? (And a number of people on its board with no relevant qualifications whatsoever). In response to lozzyloz, acupuncture is woo. It's nothing short of disgraceful that such nonsense gets referred from the NHS. But I hasten to add I'm not denying that being treated with acupuncture (or any other woo) can have an effect, it's just that it's a placebo effect and not due to the actual treatment.

INterestingly the word vagina derives from the latin (or something like that) for sheath, ie it's defining a lady's ladybits purely in relation to what a man does with it. C*nt on the other hand has it's roots in the word for triangle, so is simply descriptive and therefore a better word all round surely.

Oh this is brilliant. I love the whole we've got phd's and degrees and such like in CAM. Gillian McKeith has a PhD but what's it worth? Not a lot when it came from some internet 'university' or such like. Having letters after your name doesn't mean your views are somehow immediately worthy of respect. Self regulated gobbledygook is no more worthy than unregulated gobbledygook. And I love the line about 'some things work for some people, some for others'. No. Medicine works for everyone. I'd love to know who these other cultures are with their other ways of doing things. And what their life expectancies are. I am not accusing anyone of knowingly or willingly misleading people, I'm sure you believe your hocus pocus, but misleading people they are. Why do a course in nutritionism at Worcester? Why not do become a dietician? As always with woo science it can be undone with a few simple, straight questions. Which those that buy into it choose to ignore.

Gaaaaaaaah. How much do I hate Thames Water? This was an absolute effing disgrace on Saturday. Throughout the day they put different voice messages on their phone line (an 0845 number it's worth pointing out so it cost money to call rather than an 0800 number) saying the water would be on by 5, by 8, by 11. I didn't go out and buy bottled water because they kept saying it'd be on in a few hours. At 10pm I eventually spoke to a human being called Tanya (of course she wouldn't give me her surname even though I pay her wages). She said the repair had been effected, pipe had to be disinfected then water would be back on an hour or two after that. She was trying to suggest it'd be on within two hours but when I asked the obvious question, how long will it take to disinfect pipe?, she couldn't say. I asked why I'd been lied to all day about when the water would be back on, she said they weren't lying just passing on what the engineers told them. So their engineers must be total fickwits as they seemed to have no idea how long the job would take. I asked why they didn't put a message on saying 'we've no idea when this is going to get fixed, best go buy some water'. She didn't really have an answer to that. I pointed out I had a baby in the house who needed water to drink, to be washed in and to flush away the poo she decided to do despite not having done one for the previous 4 days. Tanya said if she'd had a baby in the house she'd have gone out to buy water as back up. So in one swoop she suggested I am an inept parent and that she woulndn't have believed the messages being put out by her own firm. I asked whether they were going to give out bottles of water or tankers or anything and she said that if they put out water it'd just be gone within 10 minutes. I pointed out this is because WE NEED WATER. I eventually managed to elicit a very qualified promise that we'd have water by Sunday morning, which we did but not before 8am. And we'll get a ?20 rebate on our bill for the inconvenience. It's not the inconvenience I mind so much, they can't legislate for a burst pipe, it's the misinformation that followed. This is the third time in less than 2 years in my current house that we've been without water. I hate thames water. I hope everyone that works there catches gonorrhea and dies.

I'll be there Wednesday. Did someone say ticket prices are up to ?8? Still ?1.30 for a programme?

Isn't the thing that this isn't a community project in that the community didn't ask for it and the community, by their response to the appeal, have demonstrated they don't want it. That's a shame for the man with the vision but it's the way it is. You can't move into an area and impose a 'community project' then ask people to run it while you go off to America with some Norwegian shoegazers (which let's face it sounds way more fun than manning a basement record shop). Surely the demand and the organisation have to come from the grassroots - or am I being too simplistic?

Disagreeing with someone does not automatically make me rude. I may be direct but I find science and facts lend themselves to being straight, hocus pocus and chicanery lend themselves to oily language and obfuscation. And Strawbs I appreciate your thread has been hi-jacked to some extent but you asked for a dietician/nutritionist. The difference between them is vital to you getting a good recommendation. It's a bit like asking for a doctor/witch doctor. You'll get very different results depending which you go to.

Did anybody else get a letter from Bara through their door last night? Let me start by explaining that I have a lot of time for Bara, I'm glad they exist and what them to continue as a respected voice. Which is why the letter infuriated me so much. It seemed to have been written by someone from a home for the terminally stupid. It sets out various objections to the Barry Road/Etherow St proposal. Now there are serious objections to be made to this proposal, mainly as far as I can see on subsidence and traffic grounds. Objections best backed up by expert evidence from a surveyor or such like. But the list in Baras letter is just stupid and easily demolished by the developers. The most mind-bogglingly moronic objection is that there won't be enough car parking spaces in the development because 'most people have two cars'. Who? I don't know anyone in London with 2 cars, let alone anyone living in a 1-bed flat as is proposed here. Bara then make an alternative proposal of houses instead of flats, 'each with one car parking space'. Surely a household is more likely to have more than one car than a 1 or 2 bed flat? Didn't anyone think of this before typing it out and sticking it through everyone's door? That's just the worst of the stupidity on display. The letter just makes Bara look like a bunch of small minded nimby twats and I sincerely believe that that couldn't be further from the truth. It makes me sad and angry.

If this bloke, who has already proved himself something of a numpty when it comes to business (and I mean that in an affectionate way, I find his chutzpah inspiring), signs up 70 loonies willing to join him I'll put up the rent money myself.* *Note - said for dramatic effect, may not actually put up money at all.

Erm, shouldn't you have thought about all this before opening the 'shop'?

Gippos? Why were people from Egypt stealing tyres? I can't believe there's two pages on this thread. The OP was just trying to warn folk and do his civic duty. Isn't that what a forum is for? Sean Mac I don't believe the quality of stuff on this forum has gone down, there's just more about. I fear you're beginning to sound like one of those folk who says there's nothing on the telly. There's lots of threads on here that you probably would like, just avoid the ones you don't and leave others to it.

They seem to be cutting back on the sort of baby products the good people of East Dulwich (myself included) love too - naturcare nappies, organic rusks etc. Bah

I'm not being rude, I'm being sensible. If you held the opinion that when no-one is looking all the trees get up and dance around I'd be entitled to question it and mock it. 'Complementary health' is equally as silly.

I hope you're right about Pardew bringing a decent team. Unfortunately I remember the Nottingham Forest friendly a few years back that had the first team listed in the programme (including Des Walker!) but bore no relation to the team of 17-year-old nyaffs that turned out. And that was part of a transfer deal too. Watford pulled a similar trick when they signed someone, Omari Coleman I think. Not that I want to put anyone off from attending, after all I should hope all on here are going to see how Dulwich are shaping up for the forthcoming season and the opposition is immaterial!

It's a tacky piece of cr@p on someone else's land. Why does the council (and everyone else) tip toe round that just because it's to do with a death? Death is a part of life and we all have to deal with it. Love is a part of life but if I built a shrine to Myleene Klass on the road outside my house the council would have it away before you could say 'marks and spencer'. Mine would be tasteful and easier on the eye too.

There's a thread about this on the forum somewhere already. Sorry, I can't be fagged to look it up and include the link. But yeah there's reception problems in that area.

Of course I have 'issues' with 'complementary health'. It's a load of old cobblers. Fact. And when people start believing in hocus pocus bad things happen so I'll fight it at every turn. I'm happy to agree to disagree, you're entitled to your opinion, I'm entitled to mine. It's just that mine is right and yours is wrong.

I've never known an all-ticket game at Champion Hill. Even when we played AFC Wimbledon a few years back. It'll be a Charlton youth team or such like I'd imagine so definitely cash on the turnstile.