You don't?
That's a shame. I always think exposure to natural light is important to remain healthy.
(The Luggage is haunted..., Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:02, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

and sane

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:05, Reply)

This is why I go out at lunch most days.
I get stir crazy if I don't.
( girlinthehole, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:08, Reply)

I hope you treat yourself to a tuna surprise at lunchtime today.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:09, Reply)

I might do that : )
Or I'll just have the usual.
( girlinthehole, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:11, Reply)

It's your birthday. Have tuna surprise.
And a cake. Cake on your birthday is very important.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:14, Reply)

No cake.
I'm trying to keep the weight off.
( girlinthehole, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:16, Reply)

But you can have a cake today.
It's the law.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:18, Reply)

It won't be the first time I've broken the law Jeff.

( girlinthehole, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:19, Reply)

I wonder if there is some bio-chemical response to sunlight?
I know that vitamin D is produced in the skin, but that's all I know. Anyone else?
(The Luggage is haunted..., Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:10, Reply)

I suspect the mighty badger might know

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:15, Reply)

Biologist by trade?

(The Luggage is haunted..., Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:16, Reply)

Biochemical Engineer.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:16, Reply)

I was going for the "all-round smart-arse" angle
but whatever
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:17, Reply)

that too ;)
also "international cunt"
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:20, Reply)

was going to say that
"biochemical engineer, all-round smart-arse, international cunt" would be a good sig, but frankly your current one will take some beating
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:24, Reply)

yeah. vitamin D is produced in direct response to sunlight
Although not through windows, as it's probably UV triggered and glass is a UV filter. Although I might be wrong about the UV thing, I haven't checked. But I think that's why SAD lamps are useless for vit D deficiency.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:16, Reply)

I heard that as glass is a UV filter and bees see using UV that they can't see through glass
what do you make of that?
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:18, Reply)

makes sense
Glass is def a UV filter, that's why you don't get sunburnt through windows.

The vitamin D thing interests me as I've suffered from mild psoriasis since I moved up to Scotland. UV therapy works, but then so does going abroad in the summer. But vit D supplements make no difference. Interesting.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:22, Reply)

Is it true that shortbread absorbs Vitimin D?

(PsychoChomp, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:22, Reply)

from what? the air?
Edit - doh, sorry, too slow this morning. Very good. Haggis would have engabled me to get it quicker, mind you..
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:23, Reply)

If glass is a UV filter how come UV tubes in tanning beds are made of glass?
Explain that one scientists? 100% proof of the existence of God!
( Peej, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:24, Reply)

they aren't.
the tubes are made of doped quartz.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:26, Reply)

it depends on the glass it would seem
glass on those sort of tubes is particularly thin, and possibly has some weird additive or something.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:26, Reply)

like not being glass ;)

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:27, Reply)

always learning!

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:28, Reply)

well, to be fair
you can call it glass, I'm being pedantic. It's fused quartz rather than just fused silica, or rather a high percentage quartz.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:29, Reply)

Heavy Glass

( Peej, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:37, Reply)

See you can't explain it
God exists
( Peej, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:29, Reply)

Well, even if I couldn't explain it
lack of a convincing explanation otherwise does not somehow justify the existence of a bearderd sky wizard. In the same way that lack of evidence either way does not demonstrate the existence of an invisible pygmy aberdeen angus in the corner of my office.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:32, Reply)

Yeh but prove God doesn't exist!
You can't so he 100% does and is totally in control of our life's. FACT!
( Peej, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:37, Reply)

I don't need to.
I don't need to prove there isn't an invisible silent heatless-fire breathing dragon in my garage, either, because to all extents and purposes that matter there is no difference between that and no dragon at all.

/Sagans
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:41, Reply)

I'm currently reading a book
where God comes back from a fishing holiday (from Renaissance until present day) and finds that the world has got all fucked up. He goes to see Jesus who is having a jam with Jimi Hendrix, and ends up sending him back to Earth to sort things out.

He fails to do so by the old method, so he tries forming a band which doesn't go anywhere, so he basically goes on American X Factor.

That is as far as I have got. It's fairly amusing though, if riddled with temporal anomolies.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:35, Reply)

I fucking hate temporal anomolies.

( girlinthehole, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:38, Reply)

I no rite?

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:40, Reply)

Extreme fishing with Robson Green God on Channel 5
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:39, Reply)

my mrs suffers quite badly from eczema
(not so much anymore unless stressed fortunately) and sunlight helps with that massively, but again I don't think vit D supplements do.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:24, Reply)