Random musings and general banter.

[Wanderer]

Ghastly lumber cushions. Surely it should be lumbar, unless they are meant for the wood cutting market.

Its because someone got lumbered with a job lot of them off some geezer.....

 

[SiRich]

Cheeky beggars have put the collagen drink up in price now it's on air. Had one in my basket 5 minutes ago that I added tonight was thinking of giving it a go, my wife takes the powder , £28.50 with an extra 10 percent off on top of that, and free delivery, clicked back in and its £29.99 now...its gone up by about £4 just as its gone on air .

So much for Mason brokering these amazing deals!

 

[Wanderer]

You get reports in newspapers about how influencers find clothing in Poundland that are similar to Zara. However the quality is unlikely to be comparable, it's likely to be a cheap copy.

Most people don't realise what fast fashion or cheap clothing is actually doing to the environment.

Fast Fashion: Its Detrimental Effect on the Environment

Fast fashion has a massive environmental impact, it is the second-biggest consumer of water and is responsible for nearly 10% of global carbon emissions.

earth.org

Chile's Atacama Desert has become a fast fashion dumping ground

Clothing from many of the world’s favorite brands lies in discarded heaps in Chile’s Atacama Desert. How it got there tells the story of modern fast fashion.

www.nationalgeographic.com

 

[Wanderer]

1) Can I get a booster drink to improve the output from IW?

2) They could save money to pass on as better pricing by recording each presenter with an item for 5 minutes and just loop that for sixty minutes.

Couple of hours per presenter per week, bosh loadsamoney saved.

3) IdealWorld - The Home of Cheezy Elevator Muzak.

 

[Duke of Cheese]

Lovely to see Jeremy dressed and scrubbed up for the occasion and back on air again…

 

[Wanderer]

Lovely to see Jeremy dressed and scrubbed up for the occasion and back on air again…

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That's the super suave Billy Hunt effect.

 

[Wanderer]

To relieve the boredom, does anyone remember.....

 

[Herring]

Cheeky beggars have put the collagen drink up in price now it's on air. Had one in my basket 5 minutes ago that I added tonight was thinking of giving it a go, my wife takes the powder , £28.50 with an extra 10 percent off on top of that, and free delivery, clicked back in and its £29.99 now...its gone up by about £4 just as its gone on air .

So much for Mason brokering these amazing deals!

You do realise ingesting collagen doesn't really do anything, right? You're just making a joke, aren't you?

Cos your stomach breaks preformed collagen back down into amino acids - the exact same amino acids you already get from protein (animal or plant they're literally identical, think of them as letters in an alphabet). A bit of digestive magic happens and eventually they end up in the liver which uses the amino acid letters to make words (chains) for whatever the body needs - it needs a lot, and I mean a lot, gang.

Your body does not and cannot know which amino acids came from what. Your body will NOT go "ooh, hold on liver, those amino acids came from the Numi collagen drink so these are reserved for not only plumping up the skin, right, not only the aches and pains, okay, so don't use them for the thousands of other basic bodily functions that help keep me alive."

Necking a colourful carton of collagen drink (or popping supplements) makes people feel better, but, like, it's literally no different to eating food.

And the beauty studies about collagen supplements which show /scant/ benefits at best could as easily be explained by increased hydration (skin, joints, brain all NEED water, and few of us drink enough: an extra glass of water a day from taking a collagen pill means more hydrated, so people see/feel results but assume it's the pill and overlook the water).

If you're already eating a freak-ton of protein a day, adding more MAY help make more collagen PROVIDING you have excess aminos left over from everything else, you're healthy, and eating a balanced diet (collagen production requires other things to happen).

It is significantly cheaper to a) just eat protein rich food or if you really don't want to gain weight b) use amino acid powders body builders use. You can get a whacking great tub for about £8 and mix a spoonful with water and drink it (ideally with ample vitamin C over the course of the day if you're aiming to facilitate collagen as it can't be made without vitamin C which is a water soluble vitamin so it needs replacing every day as we pee it out).

But whatever the carton may claim, you cannot choose or control what happens to the amino acids in the "collagen pills" once your stomach has broken them down. Biology doesn't work like that… Hence Pedro's need to visit patio doors…