Measles vaccination

The "expiry" was a joke regarding the subject of vaccinations and possible illnesses. What's wrong with that?

Or mockery.

Not wooden spoon at all Bags. Just don't like to see other posters subjected to what some might call bullying.

"Nonu are you all right? Why are you eating a prawn cocktail? "

I'm sorry but that is just laughable.

Just read an interesting passage in Billiw Wright's book Four Seasons North, which I think relevant to the discussion about community responsibility:

"The binding strength, the totality, of community requires a commonality, a shared base that makes the acknowledgement of 'other', the survival of 'other', as necessary, as sacred, as one's own."

I'm only puzzled. "Expiry"?

Weird.

j08 [woodenspoon]

When any member starts posting totally irrelevant and disjointed remarks, surely we must all be concerned.

j08; I have to disagree in that absent is concerned and must point out that I was thinking the very same thing having tried to make some sort of sense of something that Nonu said on [I think] another thread.

You are NOT concerned about Nonu! It's just an excuse for more of the same.

Taste is subjective isn't it?

Not to us, absent!

I'm sure it's fine, but Nonu's posts are becoming increasingly irrelevant and off the wall and I am concerned about her. Also, prawn cocktail can look quite pretty, although certainly not remotely appetising in that picture j08, but it is a taste abomination.

looks ok to me

EM ?? Because I like them !!! Don"t you ???

Why not?
I love them...

Nonu are you all right? Why are you eating a prawn cocktail?

Oh dear , I am on the point of expiry ,
Thank you for allowing me my Prawn cocktail , and the chance to watch "The Judge " + Ice Road Truckers .

I love you all .

Totally confused now. this is the scar I am thinking of

My husband's smallpox vaccination scar was enormous - about an inch and a half across and all pitted. On the other arm he had the scar from a boil, about the same size. Not both acquired at the same time.

Nonu -

Oh yes. The Heaf Test. My uncle had TB and we all had to have that. Yes, that's the, sort of patch, of little scars isn't it? It showed you had already come in contact with TB and had resistance. I think! (was a bit confused at the time, more so now!)

Isn't smallpox a single pimple?

Snap, Anno

It could be either smallpox or BCG (for TB) vaccination. When we were babies, the smallpox one was done as a scratch in the upper arm and it was the same when I had another before I went to work in Africa. BCG also left a scab. I think J08 might be thinking of the Heaf test which was administered by pressure. That was to detect if you had been previously exposed to TB infection. When I was 13 in 1953, we were all lined up to have the Heaf test. We were also taken by bus to the local hospital where we stripped down to our vests and had chest x-rays. After all that palaver, we had the BCG which took ages to heal. That's one reason why TB became much less prevalent.

BCG is anti TB . When I was at teacher training college we all had to have a TB test (a gadget held against the skin of the inner wrist which somehow did six tiny jabs in a circle) If the site came up red in the next few days, you had been exposed to TB and had gained immunity to it. If not you were immunised. I did not need one. Must have met it and developed antibodies at some time. We also had to have a chest Xray to check for signs of TB.