Interesting Links for 14-11-2017

[andrewducker]

Are British people actually polite?

(tags: etiquette UK politeness funny true )

15% of people are sensitive to bread. But it's not gluten that's upsetting their stomach.

This is what happened to me. I assumed gluten-sensitive, but my IBS is FODMAPs-related, and discovering that helped me to finally get it under control. I don't blame people who think they're gluten-sensitive. If you got an upset stomach every time you ate wheat then you'd probably start to think you had a gluten problem too...
(tags: food health gluten viaSwampers )

Tiny Tiny RSS sends bad threads to "The Gas Chamber"

(tags: OhForFucksSake Holocaust Technology )

Ferry McFerryface to be name of new Sydney ferry after public vote

(tags: names funny viaSwampers )

Not the comp.text.sgml Frequently Asked Questions List

I kinda wish I found this less funny
(tags: text Technology funny )

In 2015, homeowners voted CON 46 LAB 22, mortgage holders CON 39 LAB 31. But social renters voted CON 18 LAB 50, private renters CON 28 LAB 39.

(tags: housing uk voting politics )

Working 9 to 5? 66% of Brits would prefer their work day started and ended earlier (I am clearly deeply odd)

(tags: work time uk )

Government offers now a meaningless vote on Brexit

(tags: europe uk government OhForFucksSake )

A UK Cinema Is Screening Every Episode Of 'Game Of Thrones' Back-To-Back

I love Game of Thrones, but this is too much.
(tags: cinema gameofthrones )

Amazon announces Lots of the Rings prequel series

(tags: Amazon lotr tv )

The UK Supreme Court has never ruled whether Article 50 can be rescinded

(tags: UK law europe )

'Bros' fight the patriarchy with fliers about consent and housework at Blazers games

(tags: consent patriarchy society GoodNews men )

A clear example of the sociopathic nature of the gig economy

(tags: work OhForFucksSake apps )

The Post-Weinstein Reckoning

(tags: women abuse society viaFanf )

SpotMini - the latest robot dog from Boston Dynamics

(tags: robots video )

Against Brilliant Jerks

(tags: society behaviour teams viaFanf )

Trade school, not 4-year college, can solve the US income gap

(tags: Education work money )

Illegal puppy trade surges in UK ready for Christmas (horrifying!)

(tags: dogs uk abuse )

Book Review: Legal Systems Very Different From Ours

(tags: law society )

Comments

[matgb]

In my old office job I got flexitime implemented at the request of my assistant, the only requirement was that the office'd be covered 10-4 by at least one of us.

Immediately it came in she started working at 7.30am until I got her a set of keys. I tended to wander in at about 10-11, but found I had to send emails around other managers late evening fairly regularly to stop them complaining about my late starts (I had to ring people at home a lot, late finishes were useful FFS).

Of course now I understand my sleep disorder better I'd have had it under better control most of the year but...

And yeah, I'm fairly sure my problems are fodmaps related or at least exacerbated, still sure long chain gluten is a problem on its own but some of the symptoms still don't make sense.

I had been tempted to look at tiny tiny but seeing the mod has a pepe icon and called the thread 'virtue signalling' I think I'll give it a pass.

[andrewducker]

For me the major trigger was lactose. Discovering I didn't have the gene for processing it was great. Fructans are definitely secondary, but have a fairly obvious effect.

[agoodwinsmith]

Trade school. Yeahbut. At least here, trades are always seasonal, on-call, not on benefit plans or pension plans etc. And usually outdoors in the freeze-your-ass or bake-to-a-cinder eco-friendly greener-than-thou, but still NIMBY urban landscape. Also, at least all the time I was a student advisor at a post-secondary school, hopeful trade school people couldn't get a cost-cutting just-in-time company to actually, you know, apprentice them (can't complete a trade in Canada without - in most cases - four years of apprenticeship). Also, while trade schools are more than happy to enroll women in empower-the-babes programs, absolutely nobody in the good-money trades is willing to apprentice *them*.

[randomdreams]

G+ had a smattering of articles today about the possible relationship between fructans in bread and other things, and FODMAP, and suggested that for many people fructans not glutin may be what's giving them trouble.

[andrewducker]

Glad it's getting out there.

[snippy]

I did the FODMAPs thing after a gastro infection, to give my system a chance to recover; only after finishing and starting the slow process of trying a new category of food every week did I discover that it's legumes that get me. A tablespoon or two of hummus once a week is okay but lentil soup or chili with beans are completely out of the question. I haven't tried cruciferous veg yet; I'm afraid to lose a few days of illness to one meal with broccoli.

[andrewducker]

I like broccoli, but it's totally not worth losing a bunch of days to!

[snippy]

Yeah! But I really like broccoli, and cabbage (and sauerkraut), and brussels sprouts, and cauliflower. I would like to go back to eating them. Just don't want to take the risk of a reaction right now.

[channelpenguin]

When you have children, your working day time preferences will change!

[andrewducker]

Oh, I'll still want to sleep in. I just won't be able to.

[jack]

Maybe by then schools will have shifted later! :)