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Is it PotG?

Is it PotG?

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Burning birthday candles can impair brain function, a study suggests.

People are worse at focusing and spotting changes to someone’s emotions after sitting in an unventilated room with a candle burning.

The findings led the researchers to advise those celebrating a loved one’s birthday to keep windows open when blowing out a candle.

Scientists from the universities of Birmingham and Manchester put 26 people in a candlelit room for an hour and then gave them mental tasks to complete four hours later.
 




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Is it PotG? said:
Burning birthday candles can impair brain function, a study suggests.

People are worse at focusing and spotting changes to someone’s emotions after sitting in an unventilated room with a candle burning.

The findings led the researchers to advise those celebrating a loved one’s birthday to keep windows open when blowing out a candle.

Scientists from the universities of Birmingham and Manchester put 26 people in a candlelit room for an hour and then gave them mental tasks to complete four hours later.
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Scientists you say? FFS
 


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Is it PotG? said:
Burning birthday candles can impair brain function, a study suggests.

People are worse at focusing and spotting changes to someone’s emotions after sitting in an unventilated room with a candle burning.

The findings led the researchers to advise those celebrating a loved one’s birthday to keep windows open when blowing out a candle.

Scientists from the universities of Birmingham and Manchester put 26 people in a candlelit room for an hour and then gave them mental tasks to complete four hours later.
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what a brilliant use of time and resources.
 


MattBackHome

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Is it PotG? said:
Burning birthday candles can impair brain function, a study suggests.

People are worse at focusing and spotting changes to someone’s emotions after sitting in an unventilated room with a candle burning.

The findings led the researchers to advise those celebrating a loved one’s birthday to keep windows open when blowing out a candle.

Scientists from the universities of Birmingham and Manchester put 26 people in a candlelit room for an hour and then gave them mental tasks to complete four hours later.
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Who the f*** waits an hour before blowing out their birthday candles?

Was the mental task to eat birthday cake and see if you can taste wax?
 


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raymondo

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Is it PotG? said:
Burning birthday candles can impair brain function, a study suggests.

People are worse at focusing and spotting changes to someone’s emotions after sitting in an unventilated room with a candle burning.

The findings led the researchers to advise those celebrating a loved one’s birthday to keep windows open when blowing out a candle.

Scientists from the universities of Birmingham and Manchester put 26 people in a candlelit room for an hour and then gave them mental tasks to complete four hours later.
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Did that research come from my tax... probably! World has no balance or common sense any more.
 






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raymondo said:
Did that research come from my tax... probably! World has no balance or common sense any more.
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Yea, dreadful waste of money, just a bit like the people who while investigating one thing discovered by accident something else: x-rays of the body, saccharine, microwave ovens, pacemakers, Teflon, post-it notes, tea-bags, Viagra etc etc.
 














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Well, I for one am grateful and shall make the switch from candles to this new fangled gas lighting immediately.
 








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Skuller said:
Yea, dreadful waste of money, just a bit like the people who while investigating one thing discovered by accident something else: x-rays of the body, saccharine, microwave ovens, pacemakers, Teflon, post-it notes, tea-bags, Viagra etc etc.
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I understand your point, but what do you think they could have accidentally come up with? Admittedly we don't know the whole story but it seems these people have 'proved' that breathing in the by-products of combustion is apparently bad for you. I would have thought that came under 'bears shit in woods' level of factual discoveries.
 


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Greg Bobkin

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Apologies for a journalist actually looking for the source of the story, but below is the press release from the University. A document that, it is worth noting, features ZERO mentions of the word 'birthday' or 'cake' and only ONE mention of the word 'candle'.

In a shock to hopefully anyone with more than three brain cells, there's a little bit more to the research than simply warning people of the dangers of facking birthday candles :facepalm:

www.birmingham.ac.uk

Air pollution clouds the mind and makes everyday tasks challenging - University of Birmingham

Brief exposure to high concentrations of particulate matter may impair a person’s ability to focus on tasks.
www.birmingham.ac.uk www.birmingham.ac.uk
 


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Greg Bobkin

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MattBackHome said:
Who the f*** waits an hour before blowing out their birthday candles?

Was the mental task to eat birthday cake and see if you can taste wax?
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Digging a bit more into this story, it's no suprise that it's the 'right wing' media (GB News, Telegraph and the Times (in a shock move the DM went with just 'candles' and the thumbnail image is a normal-sized candle)) who are peddling the whole 'birthday' thing, which has then subsequently been repeated by the OP.

It then doesn't take long to reach the point where (admittedly in jest, possibly?) posts like the above offer a fictional scenario that, once read by some thick twats, will be taken as gospel and repeated at length. I'm in no way trying to supress free speech, but you see how misinformation becomes mainstream, to the point where it causes big problems down the line.

What a time to be alive – believing what you want to believe (regardless of the truth) or what suits your agenda to back your 'side'. All over facking CANDLES!
 


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Greg Bobkin said:
Apologies for a journalist actually looking for the source of the story, but below is the press release from the University. A document that, it is worth noting, features ZERO mentions of the word 'birthday' or 'cake' and only ONE mention of the word 'candle'.

In a shock to hopefully anyone with more than three brain cells, there's a little bit more to the research than simply warning people of the dangers of facking birthday candles :facepalm:

www.birmingham.ac.uk

Air pollution clouds the mind and makes everyday tasks challenging - University of Birmingham

Brief exposure to high concentrations of particulate matter may impair a person’s ability to focus on tasks.
www.birmingham.ac.uk www.birmingham.ac.uk
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Are you suggesting @Is it PotG? has posted something he hasn’t read or doesn’t fully understand? :lol:

As per yesterday

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Greg Bobkin said:
Apologies for a journalist actually looking for the source of the story, but below is the press release from the University. A document that, it is worth noting, features ZERO mentions of the word 'birthday' or 'cake' and only ONE mention of the word 'candle'.

In a shock to hopefully anyone with more than three brain cells, there's a little bit more to the research than simply warning people of the dangers of facking birthday candles :facepalm:

www.birmingham.ac.uk

Air pollution clouds the mind and makes everyday tasks challenging - University of Birmingham

Brief exposure to high concentrations of particulate matter may impair a person’s ability to focus on tasks.
www.birmingham.ac.uk www.birmingham.ac.uk
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As I alluded to in the post above yours, I am amazed that someone with more than three braincells is surprised at the findings. If there was an element of debate about whether breathing in air pollution is actually good for you then I could understand the reason for the research. I think those sneering have a point - birthday candles or not.
 


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