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    A sausage a day can give you cancer!

    I read yesterday that somebody who eats sausages everyday has a higher risk of getting cancer.

    Whilst this is no news as everything these days is linked with cancer, it reminded me of some other things i used to get told and have stayed wary off.

    1. if you pull a grey hair out, 10 more come to its funeral.
    2. if you sit on a cold floor, you will get piles.

    Anymore out there guys?

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    Re: A sausage a day can give you cancer!

    Quote Originally Posted by Trouble View Post
    I read yesterday that somebody who eats sausages everyday has a higher risk of getting cancer.

    Whilst this is no news as everything these days is linked with cancer, it reminded me of some other things i used to get told and have stayed wary off.

    1. if you pull a grey hair out, 10 more come to its funeral.
    2. if you sit on a cold floor, you will get piles.

    Anymore out there guys?
    Not such a negative consequence but if you eat the crusts on your toast you will get curly hair!

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    Re: A sausage a day can give you cancer!

    Warning...!


    If you pull a silly face when the wind changes, you'll stay like that forever....!


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    Re: A sausage a day can give you cancer!

    ooh just thought of another one.

    If you eat carrots you can see in the dark. my mum used to say anyway.

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    Re: A sausage a day can give you cancer!

    If you keep playing with it, it'll fall off.

    (not directed at me you understand, I heard someone else saying it )

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    Re: A sausage a day can give you cancer!

    Quote Originally Posted by Double Trouble View Post
    Warning...!


    If you pull a silly face when the wind changes, you'll stay like that forever....!

    Ohhhhh...

    ...is that how it happened?

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    Re: A sausage a day can give you cancer!

    Quote Originally Posted by Barry Shnikov View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Gav View Post
    If you keep playing with it, it'll fall off.
    Ohhhhh...

    ...is that how it happened?
    You should ask the doctor really.

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    Re: A sausage a day can give you cancer!

    Quote Originally Posted by Trouble View Post
    ooh just thought of another one.

    If you eat carrots you can see in the dark. my mum used to say anyway.
    My mum use to say if you dont eat your carrots you wont see in the dark

    Dyslexia family I guess

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    Re: A sausage a day can give you cancer!

    Quote Originally Posted by stewart38 View Post
    My mum use to say if you dont eat your carrots you wont see in the dark

    Dyslexia family I guess
    Means the same thing though...

    Actually, that use of a double negative rather than putting it in a positive way explains a lot Stewart!

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    Re: A sausage a day can give you cancer!

    If you swallow an apple pip, a tree will grow in your stomach. Ergo, it's better to spit than swallow.

    Daisy

    (A Pipless Little Flower)

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    Re: A sausage a day can give you cancer!

    This is more like helpful advice rather than a warning...


    ...if you can't fight, wear a big hat.








    no, I don't get it either.

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    Re: A sausage a day can give you cancer!

    It seems to be a day for misunderstanding thread titles.
    I took this one to be another of Brian Doolan's chat-up lines....

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    Re: A sausage a day can give you cancer!

    What the research actually says is that a sausage a day (or 3 rashers of bacon, IIRC) increases the risk of cancer (twice? I think) but since the reports give no baseline, there's absolutely no way of telling whether that is significant.

    Remember the 'contraceptive pill causes cancer' scares? One said that the risk of X cancer was increased by 50%. Looking into it, it was piffling - something like increasing the incidence in the population from 0.002 to 0.003. Yawn.

    So. Breakfast for me? Bacon, black sausage, crispy egg, tomato, and fried bread. Increases my cancer risk about as much as leaving my shirt off for an hour in the sun, I shouldn't wonder. (It's hell on the waistline, but that's another can of worms...)

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    Re: A sausage a day can give you cancer!

    Quote Originally Posted by Barry Shnikov View Post
    So. Breakfast for me? Bacon, black sausage, crispy egg, tomato, and fried bread.
    Bloody marvellous. Your place or mine?

    Quote Originally Posted by Barry Shnikov View Post
    It's hell on the waistline, but that's another can of worms...)
    You keep a can of worms on your waist line? Is that the latest fashion statement like 80's band Bros putting beer bottle tops on their shoes?

    That's well sexy innit?

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    Re: A sausage a day can give you cancer!

    Quote Originally Posted by Gav View Post
    You should ask the doctor really.
    Naughty naughty. That's what bad newspapers get into trouble for.

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    Re: A sausage a day can give you cancer!

    Quote Originally Posted by Double Trouble View Post
    Is that the latest fashion statement like 80's band Bros putting beer bottle tops on their shoes?
    Aren't you the fashion guru?

    'Bros'?

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    Re: A sausage a day can give you cancer!

    Quote Originally Posted by Trouble View Post
    ooh just thought of another one.

    If you eat carrots you can see in the dark. my mum used to say anyway.
    Actually that's partially true - lack of vitamin A (found in carrots) can cause night blindness...sorry, geek moment over

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    Re: A sausage a day can give you cancer!

    An apple a day keeps the doctor away

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    Re: A sausage a day can give you cancer!

    Quote Originally Posted by batnurse View Post
    Actually that's partially true - lack of vitamin A (found in carrots) can cause night blindness...sorry, geek moment over
    I always heard that saying was dreamt up in the war because we had radar and the germans didnt

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    Re: A sausage a day can give you cancer!

    Quote Originally Posted by martingold View Post
    I always heard that saying was dreamt up in the war because we had radar and the germans didnt
    That's right! I heard something like that. An urban myth about the origins of an urban myth!!

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