On Tue, 18 May 2004 16:35:02 GMT, Simon Brooke <[email hidden]> wrote (more or less):
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in message <[email hidden]>, Elisa Francesca
Roselli (') said:
As the weather turns nice, clouds of midges and gnats are starting to form. Larger and less clean biological specimens are also air-borne and thickening.
Remembering - how could I forget - the day on my kick-scooter when I swallowed a large bluebottle (ah, that savour of rotting melon lingering at the back of my throat for the rest of the week ...), and being conscious that on a cycle, one sooner or later ends up opening one's mouth to breathe, I want to ask you people if there are any standard solutions.
It occurs to me that I have never seen a cyclist wearing a veil. Why not?
It's quite common in London and other filthy places for cyclists to wear an anti-polution mask, or a hankerchief or bandana tied across the lower part of the face, or wear a buff similarly. What the smartly-dressed terrorist wears about town...
Teh problem with them is they concentrate and hold teh smoggy stuff - so you end up (unless you change teh filter bit daily or so) breathing in worse quality air on average than if you don't wear them.
I had the misfortune yesterday of accidentally snorting a gnat up my nose whilst riding through Chinatown. I'm not sure exactly where it went after that, probably into my lungs somewhere, because it seemed to cause a sort of horking cough.
What happens to small beasties that get caught in your lungs like that? I imagine they get caught in the mucus, and die there. Then what? They dissolve and are absorbed into the body? Kind of disgusting to contemplate, eh?
It's quite common in London and other filthy places for cyclists to wear an anti-polution mask, or a hankerchief or bandana tied across the lower part of the face, or wear a buff similarly. What the smartly-dressed terrorist wears about town...
Er, a buff? I didn't think that was something that you wear?
What happens to small beasties that get caught in your lungs like that? I imagine they get caught in the mucus, and die there. Then what? They dissolve and are absorbed into the body? Kind of disgusting to contemplate, eh?
I've read that the concerned conduits are designed to take this kind of stress. Noses are lined with hairs to filter, there are all sorts of anti-septic barriers, and even if it does get swallowed it just ends up digested in hydrochloric acid. Still, I don't much like the idea. Besides, bug-snorting makes one sneeze, and with my disastrous balance that's amply sufficient to blast me into a ditch.
OTOH, wasps and stingy things could be a real danger. I'd think a wasp sting on the oesophagus could easily lead to anaphylactic shock. Or at the very least, a critical bout of asthma!
It's quite common in London and other filthy places for cyclists to wear an anti-polution mask, or a hankerchief or bandana tied across the lower part of the face, or wear a buff similarly. What the smartly-dressed terrorist wears about town...
Er, a buff? I didn't think that was something that you wear?
On Wed, 19 May 2004 09:33:12 +0200, Elisa Francesca Roselli <[email hidden]> wrote (more or less):
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Claire Petersky said:
What happens to small beasties that get caught in your lungs like that? I imagine they get caught in the mucus, and die there. Then what? They dissolve and are absorbed into the body? Kind of disgusting to contemplate, eh?
I've read that the concerned conduits are designed to take this kind of stress. Noses are lined with hairs to filter, there are all sorts of anti-septic barriers, and even if it does get swallowed it just ends up digested in hydrochloric acid.
Surely that only happens if they go to the stomach?
In article <%Dwqc.75856$iF6.6370227@attbi_s02>, cpetersky@mouse- potato.com says...
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I had the misfortune yesterday of accidentally snorting a gnat up my nose whilst riding through Chinatown. I'm not sure exactly where it went after that, probably into my lungs somewhere, because it seemed to cause a sort of horking cough.
What happens to small beasties that get caught in your lungs like that? I imagine they get caught in the mucus, and die there. Then what? They dissolve and are absorbed into the body? Kind of disgusting to contemplate, eh?
They will almost certainly die, but will probably be worked out of the lungs by the ciliae (sp?), just as dust and other inhaled particles are. Most of that stuff is then swallowed.
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How about one of those little "personal face fans", turned outward to blow those offending buggers away?
That should work. You'd have to hold them in your teeth, of course.
EFR Ile de France
I've just had a thought... practise cycling until you are able to ride with no hands on the bar - stick both arms out to the side - have personal face fan as above, but with larger propellors - hey presto, instant take off into the great blue skies
Cheers, helen s
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Eat'm up, it's free protein? Where's the down side?
P.S. Elisa, I was wondering why do so many of the French have Italian sounding last names?
Elisa Francesca Roselli said:
As the weather turns nice, clouds of midges and gnats are starting to form. Larger and less clean biological specimens are also air-borne and thickening.
Remembering - how could I forget - the day on my kick-scooter when I swallowed a large bluebottle (ah, that savour of rotting melon lingering at the back of my throat for the rest of the week ...), and being conscious that on a cycle, one sooner or later ends up opening one's mouth to breathe, I want to ask you people if there are any standard solutions.
It occurs to me that I have never seen a cyclist wearing a veil. Why not?
EFR Ile de France (mais non M'dame, ce n'est pas un signe ostenatoire d'appartenance réligieuse ...)
Elisa, I was wondering why do so many of the French have Italian sounding last names?
I think Elisa is actually an American in Paris, but my memory may be faulty.
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