A Vote for Wool

[tyger]

Among many other things, I leared that a major destructive effect of smoking invovles direct inactivation of alpha 1-antitrypsin A1AT).

Yes, I was working in the shop on a buckle for pidperDBH, and I got to thinking about it: if I remember correctly (from 1982), smoking elicits a protagonistic/antagnoistic feedback loop that involves the A1AT inhibitor. Now, remember, this is 30 years ago, so there may be some new science that transcends, but you get the point.

Smoking a few won't really hurt. But somewhere a body does cross the line, and that line varies among us bodies.

If there ever was anything 'historical' in this thread, I missed it. It seems that all we have been talking about from the very beginning was non-wool, "pollution", particles, and their known/likely effects on the body, specifically the pulmonary system.

[tyger]

Got up this morning, thinking (as usual), and said to myself:

"There is no history so true as the present."

I suspect that others have said something much like this.

[Bugbear]

Got up this morning, thinking (as usual), and said to myself:

"There is no history so true as the present."

I suspect that others have said something much like this.

I do think about that very often, Tyger. We are, or will be, the history of future people, and we are experiencing and recording things that they will only know through us. Not sure that is quite what you are saying, but…

[Ian.MacAllan]

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If there ever was anything 'historical' in this thread, I missed it. . . .

My point was that the best evidence we have is that kilts were originally made of wool and many of us feel that wool is still the "best" fabric for a kilt, despite its cost.

Thanks to you all for the digressions, especially about smoking. I quit in April of 1977, after 32 years of smoking, and I think quitting was the second wisest thing I have ever done. The wisest, of course, was to marry in 1973.

(No, as far as I know my wife does not read this forum, but no one reaches his eighth decade without taking some precautions.)

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[ForresterModern]

(No, as far as I know my wife does not read this forum, but no one reaches his eighth decade without taking some precautions.)

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Precautions such as making sure the wife does not read the forum, or that, just in case she does, you throw in there a nice compliment about her and your happy marriage?

The wisest, of course, was to marry in 1973.

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There are precautions, and then there are precautions. I get the feeling you are a "belt plus suspenders" kind of guy, always thinking ahead. ;)

[tyger]

My point was that the best evidence we have is that kilts were originally made of wool and many of us feel that wool is still the "best" fabric for a kilt, despite its cost.

Thanks to you all for the digressions, especially about smoking. I quit in April of 1977, after 32 years of smoking, and I think quitting was the second wisest thing I have ever done. The wisest, of course, was to marry in 1973.

(No, as far as I know my wife does not read this forum, but no one reaches his eighth decade without taking some precautions.)

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