Hello mark!

06 Jan 19 16:06, you wrote to me:


 ml>  On 2019 Jan 06 13:43:30, you wrote to Dave Drum:

 MM>> It's fascinating on how many things were invented for one
 MM>> purpose, but wound up working better for a completely different
 MM>> purpose. (Listerine mouthwash and Viagra come to mind)

 ml> plastic, man... all these plastic bottles...

 ml> do you remember the thing some years back about the plastic bottles
 ml> leaching hormones into the product? BPA and there was another one...
 ml> the story i heard was that someone had developed a hormone substance
 ml> that was hoped to help women... it didn't work so it was shelved...
 ml> later someone was looking to make plastics that were flexible, light
 ml> and sturdy... they found the shelved stuff and added it to their
 ml> plastic mix and it worked... so we had all this new plastic stuff
 ml> coming out for everything... i don't really remember when milk went to
 ml> plastic but i do recall the convienience of being able to buy a gallon
 ml>  at the time instead of half gallons and quarts... so anyway, yeah,
 ml> suddenly everyone was getting hormones they didn't need and it was
 ml> coming from the plastic bottles and containers... that's one reason
 ml> they say to not reuse bottles... another is cleanliness and being able
 ml> to wash them properly...

 My wife was just yelling at me yesterday because I've been drinking a
massive amount of water now that I started Keto, and I just wanted a nice
big bottle to keep at my desk so I didn't have to constantly go fill up a
glass. "I just need a 1 liter bottle or something", I said.
"YOu can't re-use those plastic bottles!" she kept telling me. I
guess I know why, now.

 ml> but, yeah, that's rather loose with the story and simplified a bit...
 ml> it was likely the chemical formulation that was found and used and not
 ml> like actually picking stuff off a shelf in a jar and pouring it in :)
 ml> so now we have plastics marked BPA-Free where that stuff was pulled
 ml> out and replaced...

 ml> damn, my train left me at the station again... even reading back over,
 ml> i don't know what else i was going to write :?


 This happens to me often. I'll even start writing a response sometimes,
get completely lost and just delete the whole message after having spent
20-30 minutes writing an entire page of text. It's probably why I post on
fidonet so infrequently, I need to be bitten by the "writing" bug
otherwise I just read stuff and say "that's interesting, but I have no
response" and leave it at that.


Mike


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