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Trouble is, once someone accepted an ounce, a pound, a pint as a sensible, useful unit for one purpose, it then got used for everything, regardless how sensible or otherwise. Gone are the days where we really did have sensible units for particular purposes - such as the 15 lb wool stone -...

You could argue that about 500 ml of beer.

Go down the pub and consider how sensible the units were for spirits. 1/4, 1/5 or 1/6 of a gill - a unit hardly used anywhere else than the pub or very old recipe books. So 1 1/4, 1, or 0.8333 of a fluid ounce.

My point, though, was that we are in a massively connected world. In a particular instance you might feel confident in making an assumption but if you pick an arbitrary document (in English) which refers to pints, you cannot safely do so. Hundreds and larger numbers are in pretty darned regular...

You have assumed I was talking about a UK pint. In this highly interconnected world, having two very significantly different pints in widespread use is confusing. Stick to metric. If you wish, call 500 ml a pint (which fits nicely in a pint glass with room for a head or imperfect balance)...

And how much does a pint of pure water (under standard conditions) weigh?

Scotland is also asking for military support.

Government spokesman: Pounds and ounces are an easily understood and widely used unit of measurement. This is one small part of a wide-ranging drive across government to establish the right regulatory environment to support jobs and growth across the UK. He can't even count. Pounds and ounces...

Some explanation is required - from "them".

I too have had them for what seems like an eternity. But I still see them for at least part of every day, sometimes most of the day.

I heard about a pharmacy which was doing flu vaccinations saying they would see the person again in a few days for a Covid booster. Before the government had made any announcement. Have to say, there is much I do not like about the booster program. 1) The government made their decision some...

At least some of us have floaters which vary in impact due to where they are at the time. Sometimes I notice mine; sometimes not.

Seem some odd decisions have been made. (Though I can understand there will be availability and distribution difficulties imposing restrictions on choices.) I'd have expected the optimum in terms of protection alone would be for a different vaccine to be used for any booster to that originally...

Vine is very much a hypocrite.

Von der Leyen: EU must acquire ‘political will’ to build own military European Commission president’s state of union speech urges bloc to learn lessons from US withdrawal from Afghanistan Just how much of the value do we expect will come to the UK? And how much would have come on a non-brexit...

The first real symptom was plantar fasciitis. And poor sleep. This occurred after giving up smoking and having a lot of high stress things happen. My TSH was tested, several times, and each time it had risen. FT4 below bottom of reference interval. Started levothyroxine and things pretty...

Absolutely agree. (So long as you can take it OK.) The stories I read include treating hyper flares of Hashimoto's as if it is Graves, and Graves patients being pushed to RAI almost immediately. And PTU not being offered if there are issues with Carbimazole. Agreed about due diligence but all...

Horrible disease. I keep reading of people who went through treatment, RAI or surgery, became hypothyroid and have never received adequate thyroid hormone treatment. Hypothyroidism can cause permanent optic nerve damage due to compression - which occurs as myxoedemic swelling compresses the...

When partner became hypothyroid, one of the many very unpleasant aspects was impaired vision. Loss of colour perception. Loss of focus ability. And very bad night vision/recovery from dazzle. She has improved enormously. When I became hypothyroid some time later, I too had impaired vision. I...

I had to look them up the other day - part of Bausch Health who were renamed from Valeant after scandals. https://www.bauschhealth.com/ Bausch Health Companies Inc. (formerly Valeant Pharmaceuticals) is a multinational specialty pharmaceutical company based in Laval, Quebec, Canada. It...