How your dog or cat can protect you before you're born

[1monster]

[tazkcmo]

1. We were tempered in liquid poo

Seriously. When we lived in Houston ooooooooh so long ago, us kids would go swimming in the water treatment plant. We'd all come home with our poo-staches and our mom would freak! We also always had pets and spent most of our leisure time outside, in the dirt, playing with creepy crawlies and the like. I missed maybe 3 days of school in my life. I think it's because of our exposure to all kinds of germs.

[CFLDem]

5. Blech

[CFLDem]

6. But on the other hand

you were a regular George Carlin

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[Voice for Peace]

8. I'm in his camp about the immune system.

Just watched a Frontline show about antibiotic-resistant
bacteria. Not one mention of the human immune system.
It's as if most of the medical world doesn't even realize
it exists or how brilliant it is.

[CFLDem]

9. Exactly

kind of like experiential cancer treatment where they have a virus infect the cancer cells and let the immune system do the rest.

Our bodies are wondrous indeed.

[1monster]

10. It's hard to believe that George Carlin is the same sweet guy I used to allow

my son, when he was two years old, to watch every day on Thomas the Tank Engine.

What a mouth! (Was there a good twin and and evil twin? )

[CFLDem]

11. In the immortal words of George Carlin

F*ck the children... This is Mr Conductor speaking.


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[jtuck004]

13. On the other hand lots of people who destroy millions of lives every day never utter a curse word

while they go about their days in their little business suits at many of our bigger corporations.


I'd take George as a friend to my kids over any of them. Any day. What a heart.

[1monster]

14. I like George Carlin. I was just pointing out the very different persona he

protrayed as Mr. Conductor. He was great in that role by the way. My son cried every day when the show was over because he wanted more.

[jtuck004]

15. George just hated euphemisms and hypocrisy, and in pointing that out,

people, because of how they have been trained by their masters, paid more attention to the language than the lesson. But I can see you like him.

He was raised in a school with nuns who used no grades and no corporal punishment to begin the control of kids minds, ("across the street" from the college John Dewey was at, no less) and left school in 9th grade, so he was able to go on to a better liberal education than most of us get.

It's too bad more haven't had that advantage, else it would be lot easier to see how much of our behavior and thinking was built into us by others. Because then the 300 plus million might not be working to serve the few million, eh?

[polly7]

2. I have to agree with this.

We (nine children) were raised pretty much growing up and making pets of each new calf, colt, piglet, chick, dog, cat, hurt mouse or bird on the farm. This sounds awful, but I barely remember wearing shoes around them (except to clean them out of course). Not one of us has ever developed asthma as children or adults and very rarely have been hospitalized for anything but for the plenty of injuries caused by - not the animals themselves, but the way we worked with them. My mom and dad were meticulous people, but as far as anything with animals went, they let us do what we wanted and all these years later we're actually a pretty healthy family.

I also remember rafting every day we could in the biggest sloughs where the neighbour's cows went to cool off and do their thing and swim in the dugout where who knows what was in there. Bliss!

[HockeyMom]

3. I scooped and changed the cat litter

35 and 30 years ago while pg. My kids grew up to be fine.

[newfie11]

4. I did my part

Dogs, cats, horses, cows, goats, pigs we had all while I was pregnant and while our kids grew up.

Gotta add only dogs and cats lived in the house

[Maraya1969]

7. My parents didn't have a pet when I was born and I was bottle fed

And I have the worst allergies you can imagine. And I also have asthma.

[iamthebandfanman]

12. id imagine over all air quality

has something to do with the rise in asthma

[RoccoR5955]

16. personally, I think we are being too clean these days.

Without "exercising" your immune system, it will not work properly. The one way to exercise your immune system is to be exposed to more germs, and have your body fight them naturally.