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1. Currently reading a 1980s Judith McNaught Boddice Ripper entitled Whitney, My Love which is highly controversial. (ie. some hate, some love. Mainly, I think a lot of people just don't read very carefully - but that's just me. Romance genre is known for readers that skim and do not think all that hard about what they've read.) At any rate, the book takes place in England during the 1800s. And while reading it...I noticed that the characters called people who hailed from England, English. This begs a question - is this accurate?
Would someone who lives in England - call another person, English, or would they call them, British, during this time period? Or does it depend on the situation? Sort of like in the US, when we generally call each other Americans, but also might state "Kansan" or "New Yorker" or...honestly some of the states this doesn't quite work with. You don't call people from Massachustus - Massachustusians, do you? Anyhow - to the folks who live in Great Britian or England - what do you prefer? British or English? I can't imagine someone from Scotland or Wales wanting to be called English. At least they didn't when I visited in the 1980s, and I don't refer to my heritage as English, but rather Welsh, Scotch-Irish, Irish, French-Belgium and German (yes, Northern Celt - Lady of the Moon, can't you tell?).
2. Suffering from Arthritis? Inflammation? Feel like a human weather vane - the weather gets nasty and you begin to ache?
Try going off nightshades for three months. Of course first you have to figure out what they are and what the heck I'm talking about. Also it's a rather controversial topic.
Nightshade...sounds like something out of a Neal Gaiman/Tim Burton story, doesn't it? Apparently in reality Nightshades are foods with a chemical known as Solanine which is an alkoid and can be highly toxic for some people. Some people are highly sensitive to it. Others not so much.
This view is rather controversial. Some people believe nightshades cause arthritic pain and are inflammatory, and some do not. And they are quite strident in their views. (If you thought fandom was bad, try the health field.)
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Tomorrow, I'll discuss what I've learned about grains.
Would someone who lives in England - call another person, English, or would they call them, British, during this time period? Or does it depend on the situation? Sort of like in the US, when we generally call each other Americans, but also might state "Kansan" or "New Yorker" or...honestly some of the states this doesn't quite work with. You don't call people from Massachustus - Massachustusians, do you? Anyhow - to the folks who live in Great Britian or England - what do you prefer? British or English? I can't imagine someone from Scotland or Wales wanting to be called English. At least they didn't when I visited in the 1980s, and I don't refer to my heritage as English, but rather Welsh, Scotch-Irish, Irish, French-Belgium and German (yes, Northern Celt - Lady of the Moon, can't you tell?).
2. Suffering from Arthritis? Inflammation? Feel like a human weather vane - the weather gets nasty and you begin to ache?
Try going off nightshades for three months. Of course first you have to figure out what they are and what the heck I'm talking about. Also it's a rather controversial topic.
Nightshade...sounds like something out of a Neal Gaiman/Tim Burton story, doesn't it? Apparently in reality Nightshades are foods with a chemical known as Solanine which is an alkoid and can be highly toxic for some people. Some people are highly sensitive to it. Others not so much.
This view is rather controversial. Some people believe nightshades cause arthritic pain and are inflammatory, and some do not. And they are quite strident in their views. (If you thought fandom was bad, try the health field.)
( Read more... )
Tomorrow, I'll discuss what I've learned about grains.