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Kylehnat
I dunno. There may be some ingredients/chemicals that are fine for pets, but don't sit well with humans. Why don't you test it, and report back to us :p.
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Now what would be the point of General Questions if I just went and ate some anyway :D

niky
Some people eat pet food. Some pet food manufacturers have quality equal to human food manufacturers... and their product consultants taste test the foods personally.

That's the wet food... the dry stuff... errh...
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Many thanks for a credible answer 👍

Uni living just got cheaper!!



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Another question...

Got a checkup on my teeth today, and I had this gum disease check done on me. He was quite rushed (as you'd expect) and after asking a few other questions I felt this one wasn't as important to ask. He rated each sides of the gum on each side of the mouth from zero to one, which I presume are good ratings. What is this rating system he's using? I'm curious to know what rating "one" means and what rating it goes up to.
 
G.T
Another question...

Got a checkup on my teeth today, and I had this gum disease check done on me. He was quite rushed (as you'd expect) and after asking a few other questions I felt this one wasn't as important to ask. He rated each sides of the gum on each side of the mouth from zero to one, which I presume are good ratings. What is this rating system he's using? I'm curious to know what rating "one" means and what rating it goes up to.
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They probe between the tooth and gum tissue to see how deep the pocket surrounding the tooth is before the gum becomes fully adhered to the tooth. The measurement is in millimeters, I believe. 0-1mm is a very good rating. Up to 3 is acceptable, and 4 or 5 is an indication of potential trouble.
 
Kylehnat
I dunno. There may be some ingredients/chemicals that are fine for pets, but don't sit well with humans. Why don't you test it, and report back to us :p.
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I worked at a boarding kennel for close to 3 years, here is my run down on dog food for human consumpion.

Gerenic 'Wet' food: Basic brands like 'Chum' are actually relatively ediable, and kinda taste like soggy newspaper, I wouldn't go out and order a meal of it, but I reckon if you heated it up or put it in a sandwich it would be tolerable.

Fancy 'Wet' food: Such a 'My Dog' or anything else along the lines of 'Smoked trout topped with country cheese and herbs'. Don't actually taste like that at all, to be perfectly honest, you can't tell the difference between any of the flavors either. Kinda tastes like the Gerenic brand but with a bit of tang to it.

Dry food: Most of it of the dog variety will make you close to throw up instantly. Think of the driest thing you've ever had and times it by 1000, then having the taste of vomit littering your mouth, horrible, horrible stuff and some are worse then others (I'm looking at you Supercoat Light and Mature). However, some of the gerenic cat foods are almost tasty. Not bad at all.

Treats: Those beef/chicken straps are generally not too bad, very much like disgracefully low quality jerky crossed with cardboard. Liver treats are fail. Cabob owns though, so 'choc drops' or animal chocolate chip cookies are perfectly ediable.
 
No one should know that much about dog food.
 
Casio
I worked at a boarding kennel for close to 3 years […]
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Did anybody tell you that even though you work with dogs, you’re allowed to eat human food? :p
 
I'll stick to my pre-Windows OmniKey. Sounds like a typewriter, about as old, and with the Ctrl key where it should be.
 
Casio
I worked at a boarding kennel for close to 3 years, here is my run down on dog food for human consumpion.

Gerenic 'Wet' food: Basic brands like 'Chum' are actually relatively ediable, and kinda taste like soggy newspaper, I wouldn't go out and order a meal of it, but I reckon if you heated it up or put it in a sandwich it would be tolerable.

Fancy 'Wet' food: Such a 'My Dog' or anything else along the lines of 'Smoked trout topped with country cheese and herbs'. Don't actually taste like that at all, to be perfectly honest, you can't tell the difference between any of the flavors either. Kinda tastes like the Gerenic brand but with a bit of tang to it.

Dry food: Most of it of the dog variety will make you close to throw up instantly. Think of the driest thing you've ever had and times it by 1000, then having the taste of vomit littering your mouth, horrible, horrible stuff and some are worse then others (I'm looking at you Supercoat Light and Mature). However, some of the gerenic cat foods are almost tasty. Not bad at all.

Treats: Those beef/chicken straps are generally not too bad, very much like disgracefully low quality jerky crossed with cardboard. Liver treats are fail. Cabob owns though, so 'choc drops' or animal chocolate chip cookies are perfectly ediable.
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Why? Why why why why why?
 
ExigeEvan
Dollar. Shift+3 gives you a £.

Atleast on mine that is euro-less.
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My keyboard is euro-less. Laptop has euro symbol on the keys. Maybe people who move their computer around are more likely to need a euro symbol?
 
Sureshot
My keyboard is euro-less. Laptop has euro symbol on the keys. Maybe people who move their computer around are more likely to need a euro symbol?
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My old-ish PC keyboard and my new Sony Vaio laptop don't feater euro at all. :odd:
 
could anyone tell me what years were the SEATs, VWs, Skodas and Audis made when they were pretty much carbon copies of each other? Like the VW Golf = Audi A3 = Skoda something = SEAT Ibiza?
 
They still seem copies, though Audi are different now. My driving-teacher's Skoda Superb is just like his Passats...

Though the MkIV Golfs seemed even more copies than usual.
 
Tom Servo
could anyone tell me what years were the SEATs, VWs, Skodas and Audis made when they were pretty much carbon copies of each other? Like the VW Golf = Audi A3 = Skoda something = SEAT Ibiza?
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Well they all still share the same platform/chassis/running gear to some extent. They've never looked alike from what i can remember.

There was a time, pre VAG, when SEATs were little more than re-badged Fiats. That's not what you were thinking was it?
 
Casio's SEAT uses interior VAG panels identical to my family's Golf, as well as the same engine.. And it's not as if the outside differs that much.
 
TheCracker
There was a time, pre VAG, when SEATs were little more than re-badged Fiats. That's not what you were thinking was it?
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That was the time when SEAT had the licence to sell Fiat in Spain under the SEAT name... come to think of it, SEAT never had an original car... throughout its history, it's always sold rebadged cars.

The thing is a friend of mine is looking to buy a car, and he wanted to get a used Audi A3, so I told him to hold on because for even less money he could get a VW Golf or an Ibiza... would you happen to know when allt his cloning started, so he gets a VAG-engineered SEAT and not a Fiat one?

Metar
Casio's SEAT uses interior VAG panels identical to my family's Golf, as well as the same engine.. And it's not as if the outside differs that much.
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That's exactly what I'm getting at, but I'd like to know how far back I can go and still find a VAG-engineered SEAT.
 
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Danoff
Why? Why why why why why?
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It explains a lot, actually.

Although thanks to Lethal Weapon 3 and a long night at the supermarket, the stock crew (of which I was a part of) each ate one dog biscuit since teenagers have always done dumb things by committee. It tasted like a zwieback cracker, with very little taste at all. But my teeth were shiny.

Metar
Does the phrase "on a dog's wages" only exist in Hebrew?
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"Working like a dog" is a common English phrase, and must be fairly standard on both sides of the Atlantic, since The Beatles sung it.

However, "getting paid/paying peanuts" is the equivalent in American English, to signify low wages or something that was low-cost. On the other hand, I told my boss why we couldn't keep enough hard-working valets at my old job:

"Well, if you pay them peanuts, you get people who monkey around."

Arf.
 
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A Heckler and Koch MP5 variant with accessories.
 
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