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Post by BudgiesBuddy on Apr 1, 2012 13:44:32 GMT
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Post by Hezz on Apr 2, 2012 0:24:52 GMT
;D ;D
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Post by stace on Apr 2, 2012 0:45:33 GMT
What about when a jumbo goes down? This must surely change the statistics. You'd need a lot of donkey deaths to beat that.
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Post by BudgiesBuddy on Apr 3, 2012 17:09:52 GMT
What about when a jumbo goes down? This must surely change the statistics. You'd need a lot of donkey deaths to beat that. That's what I can't figure out  It seems like a sign board or something. |
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Post by BudgiesBuddy on Apr 7, 2012 21:05:45 GMT
Anyone |
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Post by stace on Apr 8, 2012 6:40:15 GMT
Just for you, BB. This is from the American Donkey and Mule Society.
"I saw this statement on the internet that "More People are killed by donkeys that in airline crashes each year. Now my spouse doesn't want me to get a donkey! Is this true? Help!"
NO, this statement has been plagueing us for several years now. It first appeared somewhere as a "factoid", but it, along with several others on that list, is TOTALLY FALSE. (We now hear that the National Geographic channel is using it in a commercial!) Until recently, we had absolutely NO IDEA where they got the so -called fact to base this rumor on. We have now found out that it was spawned due to the numbers of auto accidents caused by loose donkeys in Mexico and the Middle East! We often hear of people being INJURED by their donkeys, but can't yet name one case where someone in the USA was killed by a donkey-and there have certainly been hundreds of people killed each year in plane crashes. You'd think that several hundred people killed by donkeys each year would be publicized better somewhere OTHER than a "factoid sheet". People contact the ADMS for all sorts of reasons, but having searched the archives, we cannot find any notices of members or people killed by a donkey. (In Nov 2005 we found one headline of a man in Egypt being killed by his donkey - he had beaten the animal and it savaged him.) In truth more people are bitten by their family dog! Being killed in an auto collision with a loose donkey is not being killed by a donkey - it's being killed in an auto collision, which happened to involve a donkey. Help us to dispell this awful rumor-mill factoid - it's not true, it's bunk, treat it as such. Please don't let this statement stop you from getting a donkey or any other animal if you wish to own one!
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Post by BudgiesBuddy on Apr 8, 2012 11:56:40 GMT
Thank you Stace I thought it would have to do something with road accidents. Here however I haven't heard of a single donkey accident. There used to many accidents involving camels who come out of deserts and sleep on the road during nights, resulting the vehicles crashing into them. But now almost all road in the deserts are wired from both sides. |
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Post by stace on Apr 8, 2012 12:00:06 GMT
It is what we call an 'urban myth". Someone starts a rumour, then it spreads all over the country, then the world, but it isn't true.
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Post by BudgiesBuddy on Apr 8, 2012 13:25:33 GMT
It is what we call an 'urban myth". Someone starts a rumour, then it spreads all over the country, then the world, but it isn't true. That's right. This one looks a very strong rumour or myth that sign birds are installed as well  |
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Post by stace on Apr 8, 2012 22:04:06 GMT
The health advice that people should drink 8 glasses of water a day is also a myth. It cannot be traced back to any proper study. But everyone, even some health professional, continue to quote it.
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Post by BudgiesBuddy on Apr 8, 2012 22:44:43 GMT
I too thought it was good to have this much water daily |
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Post by stace on Apr 8, 2012 23:39:05 GMT
I too thought it was good to have this much water daily In the course of a normal day, we get plenty of water from our daily intake of regular drinks and fruit and veges. Kidneys are efficient filters and don't care if water comes from an apple, a cup of tea, a glass of beer, or an expensive glass of Evian water. Of course, if someone is exercising hard, you'd need extra water. If you are thirsty, your body is telling you that you probably need to drink something. Many years ago I was listening to an interview with the world's foremost water expert. He had tried to find the source of the 8 x 8 water myth and had searched research the world over. Couldn't find a thing. He traced it back to a magazine article written many years before, and it had just taken hold as fact over time. |
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