Oddments For The Weekend

Including an attempt to prevent chafing; a child relocation device; trimming with lasers; hipster conkers; and some remarkably thorough guides to the chairs of Star Trek, Doctor Who, and Blake’s 7.

All this and more.

3 Replies to “Oddments For The Weekend”

  1. Re chafing –

    Deeper looks at ancient ways of doing things –

    “A third? The Egyptian texts about medicine said for a whole lot of diseases to treat them with “beer”. Stupid things, like put beer on your anus if you had various problems… This was ridiculed for decades… then one day someone tried BREWING beer by the Egyptian techniques and IN Egypt with their weather and all. Turns out, under those conditions, a wild bacteria gets into the beer and makes tetracycline. All those “apply beer for FOO” medical directions were actually using a common antibiotic and were in fact effective…

    The more you dig in that field, the more you find…”

    https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2023/10/13/w-o-o-d-12-october-2023-friday-islam-fury-or-double-your-pleasure-double-your-war/#comment-167250

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