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Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
bitseeker:
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--- Quote from: BillB on June 06, 2018, 07:18:43 pm ---This is a good coupon. They always appear right after I buy something on ebay. I bought something this morning, then a little while later this coupon appears. So, to everyone who takes advantage of this, you're welcome. :)
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This happens because you actually live in the solipsistic BillB-Murphy universe and the rest of us are figments of your imagination, except for Murphy of course.
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Well, I am surely doing something wrong then. All of you figments of my imagination seemed to have been prepared for this coupon's arrival and have purchased everything out from under me. All the stuff I was watching disappeared and I didn't use the coupon! |O
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I feel your pain and have bought things just before a promo many times. This time, it came too early and I couldn't figure out what to get. Ah, well. There will be others. TEA is not cured that easily.
denimdragon:
--- Quote from: med6753 on March 03, 2017, 08:06:40 pm ---You know it's hopeless when your desktop wallpaper is this....... :P
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Totally OT, but what desktop widget is that? Is it native? Pretty groovy :-+
Specmaster:
--- Quote from: tggzzz on June 07, 2018, 02:58:46 pm ---
--- Quote from: Specmaster on June 07, 2018, 11:21:08 am ---Your far more likely to get Toxoplasma gondii through eating undercooked meat then from a cat,
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Reference, please.
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Try this link, all cats from domestic right through to big game cats could carry Toxoplasma gondii http://www.parasitesinhumans.org/toxoplasma-gondii.html. With that in mind, whats the answer, exterminate all cats? Everything in life is a risk, you could cross the road tomorrow and get run over and killed by a bus, where do you draw the line?
--- Quote from: Specmaster on June 07, 2018, 11:21:08 am ---and a cat that is basically an indoor cat and fed only cooked meat is highly unlikely to be carrying Toxoplasma gondii either. A cat has to be eating raw uncooked meat to get it so your at greater risk with wild or stray cats as they will have no option but to hunt their prey in order to survive. My cats while not being strict indoor ones which i think is cruel, are allowed to go out if they wish but when they do, they stay within our garden. They don't need to catch anything to eat as they are well fed anyway and birds and squirrels are quite happy to share the garden with them as they have come to understand that they pose no threat to them.
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--- Quote from: tggzzz on June 07, 2018, 02:58:46 pm ---Maybe if you live in a tower block and/or have an obese cat. All the cats I've seen and played with are owned, wander, and take great pleasure in catching Things That Move. And, if you are unlucky, vomiting up the remains on the sofa.
There is too much concern about T. plasmosis (playing fields and playgrounds excepted), and too little concern about T. Gondii. Perhaps that's because it is easy to catch and fine dog owners, but not cat owners.
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I have had cats all of my life and so has my family and not a single person in 70 years has become ill as a result of the cats and none of the cats have ever wanted to wander, they are perfectly happy to be companions to us humans, they are family and get lots of love and affection daily, seldom get left on their own and get games played with them to give them exercise. We're responsible owners, have them neutered and microchipped, unlike the vast majority of other owners around us who seldom allow their cats in the house once they get past the kitten stage. They have beds (if their lucky) left outside in the porch and food left outside if they can remember that they actually own a cat. So these cats remain attached to the house because of their homing instincts but are almost wide cats, left to fend for themselves and generally make a pest of themselves breeding indiscriminately and screeching to attract a mate.
I don't live in a block of flats either, I have a 4 bed house, cats are not obese in the slightest, they are just happy and contented cats who know only too well that they are loved and wanted and are very well cared for, can come and go as they please but its their personal preference to stay in the house with us. If we go out in the garden to do some gardening, or clearing out the garage etc, then its not unusual to find the cats tagging along to be with us. They have a litter tray that they use, infact if they are in the garden then they will go indoors and use the litter tray rather then use the garden. The litter tray gets cleaned daily and once a week is disinfected and replenished with new litter.
What is the point of having a pet if you don't intend to love it and make it part of your family once it ceases to be a kitten/puppy?
As I said we are all fit and healthy nobody in our family has ever caught anything from the cats and we are perfectly normal, if having 3 eyes is normal :-DD
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Mr. Scram:
--- Quote from: bd139 on June 07, 2018, 11:01:05 am ---It has begun.
Actually they are worse. Toxoplasma gondii. No thanks. Don't like dogs either. Guinea pigs get a :-+ though
True. However it'll be fine for raiding companies of their test gear when zombie apocalypse comes.
If I don't deliver I don't get paid but still have a product to sell so can't lose. Just will take longer. Also I suspect that the risk of this getting into someone else's hands is going to allow some leeway. I don't work well unless I'm under pressure so... >:D
Anyway off again for a few days :)
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I don't think not owning cats protects you from Toxoplasma Gondii. It's a very common infection in the EU population and cats are so ubiquitous that it's pretty much impossible to avoid contact. It's apparently more common than herpes, better known as the chronic infection that causes cold sores.
It's weird to think we live with so many uncurable diseases and most don't really seem to care.
Specmaster:
--- Quote from: Mr. Scram on June 07, 2018, 07:48:31 pm ---
--- Quote from: bd139 on June 07, 2018, 11:01:05 am ---It has begun.
Actually they are worse. Toxoplasma gondii. No thanks. Don't like dogs either. Guinea pigs get a :-+ though
True. However it'll be fine for raiding companies of their test gear when zombie apocalypse comes.
If I don't deliver I don't get paid but still have a product to sell so can't lose. Just will take longer. Also I suspect that the risk of this getting into someone else's hands is going to allow some leeway. I don't work well unless I'm under pressure so... >:D
Anyway off again for a few days :)
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I don't think not owning cats protects you from Toxoplasma Gondii. It's a very common infection in the EU population and cats are so ubiquitous that it's pretty much impossible to avoid contact. It's apparently more common than herpes, better known as the chronic infection that causes cold sores.
It's weird to think we live with so many uncurable diseases and most don't really seem to care.
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That's precisely it, its something that has been there since the world was created, just as volcanoes have been, its part of the natural tapestry of life and if mankind was able to eradicate it, something else would rise to the top and take its slot and might be even more potent and yet could be something that cats them selves are unwittingly suppressing by their very existence.
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