Post by Deleted on May 14, 2017 12:26:46 GMT -5
Sometimes, when Rob declares the end times are nigh and there's no hope for humanity, I think he's just being a big old grouchy nay-saying hating curmudgeon. And then other times...well, there's stuff like this.
www.yahoo.com/beauty/doctors-now-calling-safety-warning-194500400.html
I would just like to say that avocados are part of my daily diet -- I always have them in the house. And I have never cut myself once while preparing one.
FFS. Use a sharp knife that easily penetrates the alleged "tough skin" (is it really tougher than the skin on a thousand other fruits and vegetables?) and be reasonably careful. It's not that difficult.
Now. I HAVE slightly injured myself cutting a whole pineapple -- not so much on my knife, but on all the spiky protrusions coming out of the fruit itself. Not so I had to go to the hospital or anything, though.
www.yahoo.com/beauty/doctors-now-calling-safety-warning-194500400.html
There's a new menace wreaking havoc in kitchens across the land. And it's probably lurking in your fruit bowl right now. Growing numbers of amateur chefs are visiting accident and emergency departments thanks to our obsession with avocados.
Their affliction? So-called "avocado hand" — serious stab and slash wounds resulting from failed attempts at penetrating the fruit's tough skin, and slippery collisions with the inner stone.
Doctors say some cases even result in serious damage to nerve and tendon damage, requiring complex surgery, and some may never regain full use of their hand. Almost laughably, doctors have even reported a "post-brunch surge" in victims on Saturdays, The Times reported.
Doctors are now calling for safety warning stickers to be stuck on the fruit. “People do not anticipate that the avocados they buy can be very ripe and there is minimal understanding of how to handle them," Simon Eccles, honorary secretary of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons, who treats about four avocado-hand sufferers a week, told The Times. "Perhaps we could have a cartoon picture of an avocado with a knife, and a big red cross going through it?”
Their affliction? So-called "avocado hand" — serious stab and slash wounds resulting from failed attempts at penetrating the fruit's tough skin, and slippery collisions with the inner stone.
Doctors say some cases even result in serious damage to nerve and tendon damage, requiring complex surgery, and some may never regain full use of their hand. Almost laughably, doctors have even reported a "post-brunch surge" in victims on Saturdays, The Times reported.
Doctors are now calling for safety warning stickers to be stuck on the fruit. “People do not anticipate that the avocados they buy can be very ripe and there is minimal understanding of how to handle them," Simon Eccles, honorary secretary of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons, who treats about four avocado-hand sufferers a week, told The Times. "Perhaps we could have a cartoon picture of an avocado with a knife, and a big red cross going through it?”
I would just like to say that avocados are part of my daily diet -- I always have them in the house. And I have never cut myself once while preparing one.
FFS. Use a sharp knife that easily penetrates the alleged "tough skin" (is it really tougher than the skin on a thousand other fruits and vegetables?) and be reasonably careful. It's not that difficult.
Now. I HAVE slightly injured myself cutting a whole pineapple -- not so much on my knife, but on all the spiky protrusions coming out of the fruit itself. Not so I had to go to the hospital or anything, though.