Posts

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

bananabob, to conservative
@bananabob@mastodon.nz avatar
bananabob, to Health
@bananabob@mastodon.nz avatar

Coca-Cola, rosé wine, red wine and fifty shades of yellow – what the colour of your pee means

Red and yellow and pink and green – your urine can sing a rainbow too. You may be surprised to find out it can be purple and orange and blue. And a myriad of other unusual colours besides.

So your doctor is not always taking the piss.👩‍⚕️ 🧪

https://theconversation.com/coca-cola-rose-wine-red-wine-and-fifty-shades-of-yellow-what-the-colour-of-your-pee-means-231553

#TheConversation #Health #Urine

bananabob, to space
@bananabob@mastodon.nz avatar
bananabob, to NewZealand
@bananabob@mastodon.nz avatar

Do beneficiaries pay tax? https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/518815/do-beneficiaries-pay-tax

So if you think you were getting more money think again.

Another cruel blow.

bananabob, (edited ) to nz
@bananabob@mastodon.nz avatar

An interesting artice in the Listener about Livable Cities from Russel Brown. Behind a paywall but available from the Archive.

EDIT: oops forgot the link
https://archive.ph/hWmrK

bananabob, to NewZealand
@bananabob@mastodon.nz avatar

Kāpiti Coast's last psychiatrist quits, as government fails to keep funding promise

The National Party's election manifesto included a commitment to increasing the number of psychiatric registrar places to 50 a year, up from 37 - but there was nothing in the Budget.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/518756/kapiti-coast-s-last-psychiatrist-quits-as-government-fails-to-keep-funding-promise

bananabob, to Birds
@bananabob@mastodon.nz avatar

New fossils show what Australia’s giant prehistoric ‘thunder birds’ looked like – and offer clues about how they died out

https://theconversation.com/new-fossils-show-what-australias-giant-prehistoric-thunder-birds-looked-like-and-offer-clues-about-how-they-died-out-221599

#Birds #Megafauna #Australia #Extinction

Daveosaurus,
@Daveosaurus@mastodon.nz avatar

@bananabob ... Didn't I see them in a movie? "The Dark Crystal"?

bananabob, to nz
@bananabob@mastodon.nz avatar

I just read a startling statistic.

New Zealand produce enough food to feed 40 million people yet 7% of New Zealanders go hungry.

#NZ #Wrong

phil_stevens,
@phil_stevens@mastodon.nz avatar

@bananabob Picture a big bowl of milk powder, with a sprinkling of mince and apple fragments. Not my idea of culinary nirvana.

bananabob,
@bananabob@mastodon.nz avatar

@phil_stevens NZ exports whole meat carcasses I know I have seen them. Also exported is fruit, veg, cheese, milk, butter. I think that there is a way to make a meal out of that lot that is more appetizing than your suggestion.

I got it wrong anyway. I should have said it was 2 statistics, not 1.

https://www.stats.govt.nz/news/food-exports-increase-in-2022

bananabob, (edited ) to random
@bananabob@mastodon.nz avatar

I saw this headline on Neighbourly and my mind went --- "I know he his old but not that old surely"

"King Charles 111’s Birthday Holiday"

Note to self read more carefully.

bananabob, to random
@bananabob@mastodon.nz avatar

We all know that washing machines and dryers transport socks to another universe, but I think our dishwasher has started sending teaspoons to the same destination. We had six to start with, but now we only have four.

If you have more teaspoons than you started with please set the correct cycle on your dishwasher and send them back.

bananabob, to Health
@bananabob@mastodon.nz avatar

DNA test, which takes seconds to collect, can detect men at high risk and spare others unnecessary treatment

Scientists have developed a spit test that could “turn the tide” on prostate cancer

https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jun/01/scientists-develop-cheap-and-quick-spit-test-for-prostate-cancer

BigD,
@BigD@mastodon.nz avatar

@bananabob
Prostate Cancer is life changing, if you've survived. Symptoms vary. I put down a sore lower back that wouldn't go away to just lifting too much.
Three months later I had a radical prostatectomy. The doctor didn't mess around when I finally decided that I should go see him.
This spit test could save millions of men. Their sons, grandsons and right through their line of heritage.
Let's hope further trial evaluation proves it's superiority over PSA tests which are not 100% reliable.

bananabob, to nz
@bananabob@mastodon.nz avatar

This is the second year that our kakabeak has flowered and this year it has gone quite mad.

#NZ #Flowers #Blossom

Several kakabeak flowers hanging from a branch of the tree. The colours are a soft pink with a yellow tinge.

bananabob, to random
@bananabob@mastodon.nz avatar

Just listening to this and I want to share the beauty of it with you.

Damien Rice - My Favourite Faded Fantasy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLF6JjQfZAw&list=OLAK5uy_nsbv9nSq0YZ4Lmc9YsoKYHl1tpKI3-yOw

#Music

bananabob, to random
@bananabob@mastodon.nz avatar

Things I was told while on holiday that I wish I hadn't been. (part 2 of 2)

  1. By 2025 the World Bank will have introduced a global cashless society and it will track what we spend and not allow us to buy certain stuff. The only way to beat this is to use Bitcoin.

  2. Don't buy an EV. The batteries only last 7 years and you will have to junk the whole car because of the replacement cost.

electric_gumball,
@electric_gumball@mastodon.social avatar

@bananabob
Where did you take your holiday?
Facebook HQ?!

bananabob,
@bananabob@mastodon.nz avatar

@electric_gumball I think you might be right 👍

bananabob, to random
@bananabob@mastodon.nz avatar

Things I was told while on holiday that I wish I hadn't been. (part 1 of 2)

  1. Climate change is not man-made. There has always been climate change hence the ice ages.

  2. You don't have to worry about Covid. Masks and vaccinations are unnecessary.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • JUstTest
  • ngwrru68w68
  • everett
  • InstantRegret
  • magazineikmin
  • thenastyranch
  • rosin
  • GTA5RPClips
  • Durango
  • Youngstown
  • slotface
  • khanakhh
  • kavyap
  • DreamBathrooms
  • provamag3
  • tacticalgear
  • osvaldo12
  • tester
  • cubers
  • cisconetworking
  • mdbf
  • ethstaker
  • modclub
  • Leos
  • anitta
  • normalnudes
  • megavids
  • lostlight
  • All magazines