UK here. Quite a rural area in the mid-90s, and worlds away from US gun culture, but one time our school was playing rugby against another rival school and a lad brought in a .22 air rifle and shot one of their players in the ass from the edge of the pitch. It was hilarious for those not involved, kid got a telling off and may have been briefly suspended, but thinking about how that would have been reported these days it would probably have caused national outrage.

The fridge egg holder is for keeping hard boiled eggs, not raw ones.

That’s an interesting observation, I hadn’t thought of that. Although the day I consider pre-boiling eggs for later consumption is the day I give up on the illusion of youth.

I put them in the fridge… On top of the egg holder … In their box

Absolute madman

It’s what’s going in the appliance I’m asking about, not the appliance itself.

To be honest, I live rurally and there’s no shortage of roadside eggs available from nearby farms. A lot of them actually stock local shops, including the bigger chains where I live, because there’s an overall community preference to buy local where possible.

In terms of flavour, that’s actually something that’s recommended by at least one celebrity chef here, who suggests not putting them in the fridge so that they don’t absorb tastes and smells from other foods within.

James Martin’s egg opinion

Yeah I know, that’s why I was focusing on UK egg-fanciers.

Yeah that doesn’t really apply to eggs though, their “container” is unopened. Otherwise your fridge will get messy.

But yeah, obviously I’m gonna put stuff in the fridge that would go off once the seal has been broken.

This’ll blow your mind, but I actually put the box on top of the fridge. It makes sense in my kitchen layout, but I understand how much of fridge-tease it is for them.

Refrigerating eggs also roughly doubles their shelf life.

Yeah that’s fair enough, although they already last for ages. “Can’t wait to eat these eggs in a month”.

Still one too many pieces of packaging for my liking. Put the OG egg holder in the fridge. The chicken.

Yeah you’re right, I should really be more invested in global egg storage.

I think this is bordering on becoming an absurd discussion on the validity of demographics, which I’m not really interested in.

Besides which, the last time a whole US population was polled about something, they decided to make the worst possible decision, so my interest in US opinion is even less today.

Apart from pretty much every single supermarket

It answers the question as to why I limited it to the UK. Advice for eggs from non-vaccinated hens is to refrigerate them. So in a country that doesn’t vaccinate, the proportion of refrigerated eggs will be much higher than a country where it isn’t necessarily advised, and the decision comes down to personal choice. That’s what I’m interested in.

Because in countries that don’t vaccinate their chickens (like the US) the risk of salmonella is much higher so the recommendation is that eggs should be refrigerated to reduce bacteria growth.

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Yes, you’re understood, but you’re also wrong. However many times you say please, I’m not actually making any bold claims about the magic of hypnotherapy. I haven’t “framed” it in any way. Nobody is spreading misinformation or claiming it will be guaranteed to fix them - all I’ve said is hypnotherapy is a technique used by medical practitioners, and provided evidence for that to counter your assertion that it isn’t medicine, because by your same logic, no psychiatry is.

There’s no problem with my post other than you not deeming it as something that can be an effective treatment, which is demonstrably false - proven by the fact that it’s offered by people in the medical profession and studies have shown it can be effective. As well as your own claimed experience! Nobody has said it’s a procedure either.

You can have an opinion on it obviously, but that doesn’t stop it from being used as a literal treatment by literal professionals, and that’s absolutely not me spreading “harmful” misinformation, it’s documented fact.

You also said it’s the same as going for a brisk walk, then afterwards said it was a very powerful tool for you when giving up smoking. Make your mind up.

“Brisk walk”, “Very powerful tool”. Sounds like you’re doing the framing mate, but you can’t decide which way. I don’t think I need to tell you why the way in which we present information on social media is important.

Mate, I literally provided a link to an established medical organisation and their details from it. I’m not giving it weight, the Royal College of Psychiatrists is.

Complementary therapy, whether you agree with it or not, is very often recommended by UK practitioners.

Even the NHS offer hypnotherapy under certain circumstances! They literally tell you to speak to your GP to see if you can see a hypnotherapist on the NHS

It’s really not difficult to find examples of hypnotherapy being offered by NHS doctors in the UK. Whatever your definition of ‘not medicine’ is, there appear to be plenty of medically licensed practitioners in the UK who would argue otherwise.

I’m as sceptical as anyone, but hypnotherapy is absolutely very much accepted in areas of UK medicine, and if you want to suggest it’s the same as a brisk walk, you may as well dismiss much of the field of psychiatry at the same time.

The Royal College of Psychiatrists go into detail about its use by healthcare professionals and training is also provided for many healthcare professionals in the UK by the British Society of Clinical and Academic Hypnosis which apparently requires applicants to hold medical qualifications.

Well “the world” is a big place, but health is already a factor within education in countries that don’t want their population to become a burden on the state, while also maximising their workforce.