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Posts by Olddogandgrump
Blood tests depend on detecting anti-bodies and endoscopy depends on finding inflammation and damage to the gut - both of which fall away to normal levels the absence of gluten.
Take the tests on a GF diet and you won't get a negative result and your search for a diagnosis will continue.
You need gluten, and lots of it for weeks before a coeliac test. Form doesn't matter, it doesn't have to be just from bread. Pasta, cakes, pastry or any thing with wheat flour will count. For very young children not yet on solids, flour should be added to food to get enough in.
Are those two polls comparable? First one is a question: would they fight unconditionally?. The second one is an answer to an unknown question saying there were circumstances where they would fight.
Unconditional agreement to a question is different to a statement with caveats.
Not even a "they are not the words I would have used"?
Isn't starting negotiations a prerequisite to concluding them - and faxing a list of demands doesn't count.
GO NADS!
If I'd had a vote Harris would have had mine in a heatbeat.
And the last election counts for nothing. You need the candidate to fight and win the next election, which was always going to be an uphill battle for a fading Biden, and more so for Harris after a mid-campaign switch without primaries.
Oh stay at home Dems would get the rough end of my tongue as well - but you have to think why did they stay at home? Why were they not motivated to vote? Did Biden's failures contribute?
1: Was it really? If so it was high risk and came at a high price
2: It was two old men - neither won. Biden definitely showed his age and decline more
3: I know the difference between stutter and brain fog
4: my argument is based on observed facts as I saw them
Point out anything I am wrong about.
I'm vacancinated up to the doo-dahs.
Help out the world: stop voting in fascists.
I do want a progressive party and I agree on Labour. Greens have a long record of local opposition to solar, wind, pylons and housing. Wrong type, wrong place, anywhere but here. We are going to have to build in every neighbourhood and spoil every pastoral view if we want to house all & renewables.
I'm not sure about the Greens with their renewables and house building nimbyism - the MPs will vote for infrastructure and house building but the local coucils and members will campaign against them in their areas. All talk and no action.
It will end up a hold-your-nose-anti-Reform tactical vote.
Biden failed by not supporting one strong candidate in the primaries. Biden failed because there was no time to reunite the party after Harris's selection.
Biden's failures were the icing on Trump's campaign. That is Biden's to won.
Biden failed by not sucession planning from day one of his term. Biden failed by trying to run again. Biden failed by thinking he was sharp enough to debate a street brawler like Trump. Biden failed by pulling out so late primaries couldn't be held.
That's me told. My legitimate concerns about the future of the UK being able to function as a growing, open liberal democracy are out weighed by those of racists who will never in a million years consider the Home Sec as having a place in the country. Now where to put my next X?
Right - so these "deep thinkers" rely on fiction to illustrate their vision of the end state instead of plotting a path to the future themselves and how they would deal with bumps in the road.
Where's my hover board? Get me that first before you throw the whole world out of work.
Oh my apologies for my lack of grace. I must remember my manners. Not.
Not when it's time marked 6.06 so likely to have come from BBC Breakfast You could have done your own source verification before casting asperstions about "timing all wrong" and "feel like it's manufactured."
Breakfast, 20/04/2026: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002v84z via @bbciplayer.bsky.social
6m11s to 6m31s - unless you think the iPlayer has been hacked to insert it.
Breakfast, 20/04/2026: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002v84z via @bbciplayer.bsky.social
Still on the iPlayer 6m11s to 6m31s.
*...after the vetting...
To be pedantic - response is not untrue, but it also does not address the query. Vetting was done. It's what happened after the betting that is at issue.
But it's an evasive response that should have invited more questions.
On a serious note - if Reform don't cough up the neighbours should report them to the Gambling and Electoral Commissions. The lottery was illegal if they fail to pay out or it was an illicit data harvesting exercise. Or both.
Have they checked their spam filters? Emails with the text
"You have won a competition you didn't enter. Send us your bank account details and acopy of your energy bill and you'll get your money"
jointly signed by a known expenses fraudster and a tax dodger, tend to be blocked.
Don Jr with Eric as VP - the dream team!