Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

From	D <nospam@example.net>
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Subject	Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?
Date	2024-12-29 12:06 +0100
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On Sat, 28 Dec 2024, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

> On 2024-12-28, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>
>> On 28/12/2024 11:17, D wrote:
>
>>> What are statins? Sometimes I feel very young here. 😉
>
> <snip>
>
>> I haven't needed another angioplasty since taking them.
>> So what statins do is worth doing. IF you can tolerate the side effects.
>
> I'm lucky.  I take rosavastatin (Crestor), and have no side effects.
> I can even eat grapefruit, which my wife (who is taking a different
> statin) cannot.  Mine is more a precautionary thing, keeping
> cholestorol under control.
>
>> Cancer is an utter bitch. I am on my second now, having fully survived
>> the first,  but it is ultimately incurable, just very slow developing,
>> so its likely something else will kill me first.
>
> As the saying goes, you're more likely to die with it than of it.
>
>> The problem with some cancers is that by the time they are diagnosable,
>> they are already fatal. A friend died of fully metastasized bowel
>> cancer. The only symptom was that he was tired and a bit gaunt for years
>> and years, Then one day he went into hospital in total body pain and
>> died 3 weeks later.
>>
>> Another friend was similar.
>
> Pancreatic cancer is really nasty.  We've lost a couple of friends
> that way.  It presents no symptoms until you're already toast.
> The few cases I've heard of where people survived were due to
> a surgeon being in the area for something else and spotting it.
>
> Please, everyone (well, at least those of the male persuasion),
> if you're over 50 and haven't yet had a PSA test, get one done.
> I had been getting the digital rectal exam (i.e. finger up the
> butt) for 10 years and it had always been negative.  One day my

Nah... I'd prefer my dignity and death over a finger up the butt every 
year. ;)

> wife suggested I get a PSA test.  Because I was asymptomatic,

Does it involve a finger up the butt? =/

> it wasn't covered by medical, but I figured it was worth the
> price of a bottle of wine to find out.  It came back 20 (where
> 4 is considered cause for concern).  Rather than panic, I sprang
> for a second test, which gave the same result.  So off I went
> down the road to radical prostatectomy.  I can't believe the
> number of people who decline the test because they are either
> too cheap or don't want to know.  Sheesh.  If I hadn't had that
> test, I'd have been dead by now.
>
>

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Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-12-20 19:48 +0000
  Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-12-20 22:34 +0100
    Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-12-21 01:46 +0000
      Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-12-21 12:07 +0100
        Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-12-21 21:04 +0000
          Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-12-22 11:55 +0100
            Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-12-22 20:23 +0000
              Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-12-22 23:09 +0100
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-12-23 01:09 +0000
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-12-23 12:26 +0100
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-12-23 20:52 +0000
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2024-12-23 21:13 +0000
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-12-24 02:08 +0000
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-12-27 14:33 +0000
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2024-12-27 18:41 +0000
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? "186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net> - 2024-12-23 00:35 -0500
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-12-23 06:12 +0000
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-12-23 12:46 +0100
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-12-23 21:17 +0000
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-12-24 12:53 +0100
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-12-24 19:51 +0000
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-12-24 22:52 +0100
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-12-25 01:49 +0000
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-12-25 12:34 +0100
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-12-25 19:38 +0000
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-12-25 22:51 +0100
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-12-26 01:29 +0000
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-12-26 12:28 +0100
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-12-26 19:09 +0000
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-12-27 12:17 +0100
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-12-27 18:59 +0000
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-12-28 00:29 +0100
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-12-28 01:02 +0000
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-12-28 12:23 +0100
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-12-28 21:36 +0000
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-12-29 12:26 +0100
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-12-29 19:03 +0000
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-12-30 13:04 +0100
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-12-30 20:30 +0000
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-12-31 12:45 +0100
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? Lars Poulsen <lars@cleo.beagle-ears.com> - 2024-12-26 03:06 +0000
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-12-26 04:50 +0000
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-12-26 12:46 +0100
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? "186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net> - 2024-12-24 00:58 -0500
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-12-24 15:21 +0100
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-12-24 19:40 +0000
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-12-24 22:46 +0100
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-12-25 01:39 +0000
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-12-25 12:30 +0100
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-12-25 20:09 +0000
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-12-25 23:05 +0100
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-12-26 03:27 +0000
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-12-26 12:51 +0100
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-12-26 19:31 +0000
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-12-27 12:21 +0100
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-12-27 19:14 +0000
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-12-28 00:31 +0100
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-12-28 00:27 +0000
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? "186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net> - 2024-12-28 00:06 -0500
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-12-28 10:46 +0000
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-12-28 20:03 +0000
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-12-28 12:17 +0100
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-12-28 11:53 +0000
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2024-12-28 17:08 +0000
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2024-12-28 17:13 +0000
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-12-28 20:34 +0000
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2024-12-29 00:25 +0000
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-12-29 01:39 +0000
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2024-12-29 16:54 +0000
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-12-29 12:14 +0100
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-12-29 19:53 +0000
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-12-30 13:08 +0100
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-12-30 20:32 +0000
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-12-31 12:46 +0100
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-12-29 12:06 +0100
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-12-29 12:02 +0100
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-12-29 12:11 +0000
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2024-12-29 16:54 +0000
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-12-29 19:40 +0000
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-12-30 12:51 +0100
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-12-30 12:34 +0000
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-12-31 12:36 +0100
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-12-30 20:44 +0000
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-12-31 11:11 +0000
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-12-31 12:48 +0100
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                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-01-01 22:14 +0000
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? D <nospam@example.net> - 2025-01-02 12:17 +0100
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-01-02 20:36 +0000
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                Re: The Joys of Marriage (Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?) D <nospam@example.net> - 2025-01-03 12:34 +0100
                Re: The Joys of Marriage (Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?) Lars Poulsen <lars@cleo.beagle-ears.com> - 2025-01-03 23:41 +0000
                Re: The Joys of Marriage (Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?) D <nospam@example.net> - 2025-01-04 01:54 +0100
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? D <nospam@example.net> - 2025-01-03 12:25 +0100
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-01-03 23:43 +0000
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? D <nospam@example.net> - 2025-01-04 01:55 +0100
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-01-04 06:57 +0000
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2025-01-04 07:29 +0000
                Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-12-28 20:49 +0000
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