A sausage a day can give you cancer!

**Trouble** · 1st-April-2008, 02:03 PM

I read yesterday that somebody who eats sausages everyday has a higher risk of getting cancer.

Whilst this is no news as everything these days is linked with cancer, it reminded me of some other things i used to get told and have stayed wary off.

1. if you pull a grey hair out, 10 more come to its funeral.

2. if you sit on a cold floor, you will get piles.

Anymore out there guys?

Georgious dancer · 1st-April-2008, 03:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Trouble

I read yesterday that somebody who eats sausages everyday has a higher risk of getting cancer.

Whilst this is no news as everything these days is linked with cancer, it reminded me of some other things i used to get told and have stayed wary off.

1. if you pull a grey hair out, 10 more come to its funeral.

2. if you sit on a cold floor, you will get piles.

Anymore out there guys?

Not such a negative consequence but if you eat the crusts on your toast you will get curly hair!

**Double Trouble** · 1st-April-2008, 03:58 PM

Warning...!

If you pull a silly face when the wind changes, you'll stay like that forever....!

**Trouble** · 1st-April-2008, 04:00 PM

ooh just thought of another one.

If you eat carrots you can see in the dark.

my mum used to say anyway.

**Gav** · 1st-April-2008, 04:08 PM

If you keep playing with it, it'll fall off.

(not directed at me you understand, I heard someone else saying it

)

Barry Shnikov · 1st-April-2008, 04:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Double Trouble

Warning...!

If you pull a silly face when the wind changes, you'll stay like that forever....!

Ohhhhh...

...is that how it happened?

**Gav** · 1st-April-2008, 04:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Barry Shnikov

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Originally Posted by Gav

If you keep playing with it, it'll fall off.

Ohhhhh...

...is that how it happened?

You should ask the doctor really.

**stewart38** · 1st-April-2008, 04:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Trouble

ooh just thought of another one.

If you eat carrots you can see in the dark.

my mum used to say anyway.

My mum use to say if you dont eat your carrots you wont see in the dark

Dyslexia family I guess

**Twirly** · 1st-April-2008, 05:04 PM

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Originally Posted by stewart38

My mum use to say if you dont eat your carrots you wont see in the dark

Dyslexia family I guess

Means the same thing though...

Actually, that use of a double negative rather than putting it in a positive way explains a lot Stewart!

Daisy Chain · 1st-April-2008, 05:19 PM

If you swallow an apple pip, a tree will grow in your stomach. Ergo, it's better to spit than swallow.

Daisy

(A Pipless Little Flower)

**Double Trouble** · 1st-April-2008, 05:23 PM

This is more like helpful advice rather than a warning...

...if you can't fight, wear a big hat.

no, I don't get it either.

*straycat* · 1st-April-2008, 05:50 PM

It seems to be a day for misunderstanding thread titles.
I took this one to be another of Brian Doolan's chat-up lines....

Barry Shnikov · 1st-April-2008, 08:44 PM

What the research actually says is that a sausage a day (or 3 rashers of bacon, IIRC) increases the risk of cancer (twice? I think) but since the reports give no baseline, there's absolutely no way of telling whether that is significant.

Remember the 'contraceptive pill causes cancer' scares? One said that the risk of X cancer was increased by 50%. Looking into it, it was piffling - something like increasing the incidence in the population from 0.002 to 0.003. Yawn.

So. Breakfast for me? Bacon, black sausage, crispy egg, tomato, and fried bread. Increases my cancer risk about as much as leaving my shirt off for an hour in the sun, I shouldn't wonder. (It's hell on the waistline, but that's another can of worms...)

**Double Trouble** · 1st-April-2008, 09:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Barry Shnikov

So. Breakfast for me? Bacon, black sausage, crispy egg, tomato, and fried bread.

Bloody marvellous. Your place or mine?

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Originally Posted by Barry Shnikov

It's hell on the waistline, but that's another can of worms...)

You keep a can of worms on your waist line? Is that the latest fashion statement like 80's band Bros putting beer bottle tops on their shoes?

That's well sexy innit?

Barry Shnikov · 1st-April-2008, 10:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Gav

You should ask the doctor really.

Naughty naughty. That's what bad newspapers get into trouble for.

Barry Shnikov · 1st-April-2008, 10:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Double Trouble

Is that the latest fashion statement like 80's band Bros putting beer bottle tops on their shoes?

Aren't you the fashion guru?

'Bros'?

**batnurse** · 1st-April-2008, 11:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Trouble

ooh just thought of another one.

If you eat carrots you can see in the dark.

my mum used to say anyway.

Actually that's partially true - lack of vitamin A (found in carrots) can cause night blindness...sorry, geek moment over

~*~Saligal~*~ · 2nd-April-2008, 04:36 AM

An apple a day keeps the doctor away

**martingold** · 2nd-April-2008, 08:00 AM

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Originally Posted by batnurse

Actually that's partially true - lack of vitamin A (found in carrots) can cause night blindness...sorry, geek moment over

I always heard that saying was dreamt up in the war because we had radar and the germans didnt

Barry Shnikov · 2nd-April-2008, 09:39 AM

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Originally Posted by martingold

I always heard that saying was dreamt up in the war because we had radar and the germans didnt

That's right! I heard something like that. An urban myth about the origins of an urban myth!!

1st-April-2008, 02:03 PM	#1 (permalink)
Trouble Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Waltham abbey Posts: 3,207 Rep Power: 2 Reputation Total: 888	A sausage a day can give you cancer! I read yesterday that somebody who eats sausages everyday has a higher risk of getting cancer. Whilst this is no news as everything these days is linked with cancer, it reminded me of some other things i used to get told and have stayed wary off. 1. if you pull a grey hair out, 10 more come to its funeral. 2. if you sit on a cold floor, you will get piles. Anymore out there guys? __________________ Im going to see if blondes have more fun!!!

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Gav Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Cheshunt, Herts Posts: 3,900 Rep Power: 1 Reputation Total: 835	Re: A sausage a day can give you cancer! If you keep playing with it, it'll fall off. (not directed at me you understand, I heard someone else saying it ) __________________ "I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability." - Oscar Wilde

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Double Trouble Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Waltham Abbey Posts: 3,900 Rep Power: 2 Reputation Total: 874	Re: A sausage a day can give you cancer! This is more like helpful advice rather than a warning... ...if you can't fight, wear a big hat. no, I don't get it either. __________________ INDEPENDENT DAY TIME TELEVISION CRITIC AND PIE TASTER

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Barry Shnikov Registered User Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Southampton Posts: 5,713 Rep Power: 4 Reputation Total: 1170	Re: A sausage a day can give you cancer! What the research actually says is that a sausage a day (or 3 rashers of bacon, IIRC) increases the risk of cancer (twice? I think) but since the reports give no baseline, there's absolutely no way of telling whether that is significant. Remember the 'contraceptive pill causes cancer' scares? One said that the risk of X cancer was increased by 50%. Looking into it, it was piffling - something like increasing the incidence in the population from 0.002 to 0.003. Yawn. So. Breakfast for me? Bacon, black sausage, crispy egg, tomato, and fried bread. Increases my cancer risk about as much as leaving my shirt off for an hour in the sun, I shouldn't wonder. (It's hell on the waistline, but that's another can of worms...)

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