On Mon, 23 Jan 2017 20:39:26 +0000, Jon Ribbens wrote: > On 2017-01-23, alister <alister.w...@ntlworld.com> wrote: >> On Tue, 24 Jan 2017 07:19:42 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: >>> I believe that's "bad for you" in the sense that chocolate is bad for >>> you. >>> >>> It isn't. >> >> chocolate is a poison (lethal dose for a human approx 22lb) > > That's a meaningless statement. *Everything* is a poison in sufficient > quantities.
indees when I here someone saying "I won't have any xyz because they have heard that too much is bad for them" I invariably inform them that too much oxygen is poisonous & challenge then to cut that out completely :-) . -- Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars. -- Mohammed Anwar Sadat, 1918-1981 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list