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08/30/2012 05:05:55 PM · #301 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Originally posted by escapetooz:
PS: Mev? |
I think that's like "Miss" or "Ms" in Afrikaans... |
LOL. You've got an answer for everything.
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08/30/2012 05:06:35 PM · #302 |
| note to self: don't shake hands during DPC GTG's |
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08/30/2012 05:14:16 PM · #303 |
I been Ayn Randed, nearly branded
Communist, 'cause I'm left-handed
That's the hand I use, well, never mind! --Paul Simon, A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara'd Into Submission) |
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08/30/2012 05:17:09 PM · #304 |
Originally posted by HarveyG:
Africans have stronger constitutions than Westerners. Their systems are just that more used to and immune to basic bugs and disease. Most Europeans who come visit have the trots for a while if they drink local water and eat meat rare. |
This isn't quite true. If you took an African and had them eat/drink in Europe, a fair number would also get the trots. The issue is that our bodies are attuned to our local flora and when we travel we are exposed to bacteria we are not used to and that upsets the balance of things. It isn't that the locals are "stronger" than the visitors. |
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08/30/2012 07:20:26 PM · #305 |
Originally posted by DrAchoo:
Originally posted by HarveyG:
Africans have stronger constitutions than Westerners. Their systems are just that more used to and immune to basic bugs and disease. Most Europeans who come visit have the trots for a while if they drink local water and eat meat rare. |
This isn't quite true. If you took an African and had them eat/drink in Europe, a fair number would also get the trots. The issue is that our bodies are attuned to our local flora and when we travel we are exposed to bacteria we are not used to and that upsets the balance of things. It isn't that the locals are "stronger" than the visitors. |
It's not a competition. I'm not saying "we" don't get sick outside Africa. I do not have a Dr's degree as you but I speak from experience from having spent 30 years in Africa from filthiest Ghana to 1st World Cape Town to Cholera ridden Zimbabwe, 12 years in Australia from West to East and North to South and have travelled and eaten/drunk in the USA, Europe and Asia and I can't remember getting horizontal for a few days, or my travelling companions. Western friends who come here get sick/nauseous/trots more often than not in the first few days, until their bacteria settle or grow accustomed. My "african" friends (of all persuasions not just black africans), who travel abroad get sick less often if at all and have cast iron constitutions, in my experience. You ought to see some of the things people eat over here and in what unhygienic conditions...it's the old adage; The baby in a bubble vs the Pig Pen kid. The latter gets sick less, again, in my experience. I was a paramedic and firefighter and worked in hospitals, shanty towns, slums and rural areas. Patients would have malaria or malnutrition, dehydration from a lack of fluids and suitable diet, but less so dysentery, again, in my experience.
PS: i'm not talking about slumming it in the Hilton in Harare or the Laico Regency in Nairobi. I'm talking about going "native" and eating meals and drinking what's available outside of some form of civilisation...
Message edited by author 2012-08-30 19:26:43. |
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08/30/2012 07:23:10 PM · #306 |
Originally posted by escapetooz:
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Originally posted by escapetooz:
PS: Mev? |
I think that's like "Miss" or "Ms" in Afrikaans... |
LOL. You've got an answer for everything. |
Close Bear, Mev. is an abbreviation for Mevrou which is "Mrs." in Afrikaans. Mulder is a very common Afrikaans surname.
I thought perhaps there may be a connection and was looking for a confirmation :)
Message edited by author 2012-08-30 19:24:16. |
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08/31/2012 01:44:52 PM · #307 |
Originally posted by HarveyG:
Originally posted by escapetooz:
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Originally posted by escapetooz:
PS: Mev? |
I think that's like "Miss" or "Ms" in Afrikaans... |
LOL. You've got an answer for everything. |
Close Bear, Mev. is an abbreviation for Mevrou which is "Mrs." in Afrikaans. Mulder is a very common Afrikaans surname.
I thought perhaps there may be a connection and was looking for a confirmation :) |
Well it's Dutch so that would be the only connection there. :P No connection to Africa that I know of. Def not a Mrs. Hehe. |
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08/31/2012 01:49:31 PM · #308 |
Originally posted by blindjustice:
note to self: don't shake hands during DPC GTG's |
cocoa through the nose is unpleasant. Please refrain from lol comments. :P
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