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IF YOU SUFFER from back pain, long road trips can be dreadful. Driving can be a trigger for back pain, both upper and lower pain, and the longer you are sat at the wheel the worse the pain can get.
According to Alan Hedge, a professor of ergonomics: “Unlike regular sitting, while a vehicle is in motion the body is subject to different forces: to accelerations and decelerations, to lateral swaying from side to side, and to whole-body up and down vibrations.”
This vibration of the spine pushes on the discs between your vertebrae and, combined with the car seat design, can cause back problems for some people and exasperate problems for those that already suffer with back pain.
But there are some things you can do to reduce the impact of driving on your spine and help relieve back pain when behind the wheel.
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well done government for not wasting money on make up
People are always on about the optics of politics, perhaps since the gov look like old hags without their makeup that we just perceive them to be doing a crap job, perhaps if Enda had loads of slap on then we would be in love with him, oh the optics of politics.
In all serious fair play to them on this one.
I’m sure the people lying on hospital trollys will be ”happy” to hear this.
Wait till the gender quota kicks in and all the female TDs fill up their make up bags with Top notch gear!!
Ryan, I think you’ll find that Bertie was the highest spenders on make up! I think he’s called a man amongst many other things. ;)
Niall Collins the eejit. So a FF TD puts a request for information that only serves to show what a shower of thieving goms his party were in Govt. The poor bugger has grown up with FF antics all his life, that he thinks a man using 500 euro of make up a week is ok, as long as it is paid for by the taxpayer. Sure he had no chance in life.
Niall Collins is such a fool. What a stupid question to ask. I bet he spends €50 a week. That guy really fancies himself. Watch him next time he’s on a programme on telly at how he leers down the camera when he’s being introduced. He puts a new spin on “the way he might look at ya.” Seriously Creepy!
Maybe it’s “because he’s worth it”. Nah, maybe not. ;)
Enda is not wear ing make up …. bcos the IMF told him he don’t need it ….. When he is bending down back words from them …. As the saying goes you don’t look at the ornaments on the mantel peace when you are poking the fire…
Another slap in the face to FFailure… They obviously asked the question, on the understanding that the current government were continuing the Make-Up policy that FF loved so much… Not often i agree with the Government, and i applaud them for nto doing the FF Dog on it. I hope they can also get a grip on the photographer costs this year, seeing as how they made a mess of it last year…. How much did FFg/Labour spend on photographs last year?
Let’s not get carried away slapping them on the back. How about dealing with a story about what they are still claiming for like the unvouched dry cleaning allowance of 70 euros every week .€ 3500 a year without even having to produce a receipt.
Not to blow our own trumpet, but our reporting is part of the reason you know about those…
http://www.thejournal.ie/ministers-can-claim-e3500-tax-refund-for-laundry-expenses-287477-Nov2011/
http://www.thejournal.ie/this-is-how-much-your-td-claimed-in-expenses-in-2011-344683-Feb2012/
Well Done Journal .
In all fairness not much wrong with a politician spending money on keeping his or hers suit clean a well pressed!!
Sir Brian
I would expect nothing less than a minister to be clean and presentable at all times BUT at his/her own expense !
Yeah great. Now let’s tackle those bloated expenses.
eejit Collins
I’d love to know where the 50 went and who spent it, just for the laugh :)
FF need make up now more than ever because they have faces like well slapped asses
The department of finance has a makeup bill and declined to respond to queries about it. When questioned these departments should by law have to disclose all receipts and any other relevant information in fact they should be online so anyone can look and see the transparency
I’d say the €50 were spent on Enda getting his hair & nails done … For The Queens Visit
You can tell Harneys not in the Dail anymore! Probably off in Florida spending her fat.. pension getting a pedicure courtesy of the Irish tax payer of course! Because she’s worth it!
I don’t understand. Politicians are traditionally very attractive people. They surely don’t need makeup.
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