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After a quick google search I found this, and it's BOGOF!

http://www.firstaidwarehouse.co.uk/xpp-cyclists_first_aid_kit.html

Hmm...

Needs a trauma dressing or two, trach kit and at least one speculum. Then I'd buy the bastard.

Ok, I'm gonna have a shot of plum vodka

One more for my list of fellatio-related euphemisms...

Forgive me EEI; I too have been drinking.

Chorlton and the wheelies. Not too scary but certainly loopy.

Anyone remember 'Scream' magazine? Used to have nightmares about some bloke in a shit mask chasing some kids around a wood. Also had my first crush on a pencil sketch girl who got scoffed by a werewolf. Emotional times for sure.....

Watched both episodes and enjoyed it. He's a bit dramatic though, tearful too (with some justification admittedly).

He'd like to do it again, which is admirable. Needs to get over his fear of bears though; I'd assume he had slugs for his shotgun, pretty good medicine.

Oh right. I thought Illy was ill.

Glad to know you're well, though not as well as you'd like.

Gibbous is my new favourite word.

Had eczema all my life, as a kid it was bad enough to often take time off school.

There are alot of things you can cut out (booze, caffeine, junk food), and some things that you can take (Vitamin E, evening primrose oil, wholefoods) that will help some.

Actually treating the eczema needs lots of greasy stuff. Nothing fancy, emulsifying ointment, the thick E45/oilatum creams etc. Slap it on at least twice a day (ideally 3-4 times). Inconvenient and messy, but it worked for me and works for my daughter.

Another good treatment is to bath in warm (not hot) water with a load of emulsifying ointment mixed in. Best way to do this is put a few big scoops in a jug and mix it with boiling water before adding to bath.

www.eczema.org is a great site. Threre's a list as long as your arm of other stuff such as washing powders, stress etc to consider.

Sorry, you asked about scars. My wife used cocoa butter on her stretch marks, seemed to work!

cuntastic!

You can bet your sweet dandy arse that these guys like to roll on their superfly-fixies between camp photoshoots.

i don't think mooks suggested that none of us are determined by our biology, that is crazy talk, it kind of refutes the existence of reproduction and traits being passed on.

what i think they meant is, if you took two, white, lesbian, one legged women, they would not be the same, and these things do not define who they are.

Yep, understood. I do tend to miss the finer points of discussions, probably because I am a man and therefore tend to not listen to anyone else.

I have Casanova fingers, so your stereotypes can't touch me*

*except for the stereotype about females with testosterone markers from early brain development being more likely to enjoy sports, have better spatial reasoning, and to have certain susceptibilities to autistic spectrum disorders and alcohol and drug use, that is :-D

Boom! That's the kind of thing I'd have mentioned if actually knew what I was on about.

It may oversimplify things somewhat, but we are simply people, who have a myriad of behaviours and characteristics that define who we are - none of which are dependent on gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or otherwise. The sooner society learns that, the better.

Then society will never learn that, because it isn't true. You work in diversity Mooks, your job is presumably to prevent people being subject to unfair stereotypes. In order to do this as effectively as possible you have decided that none of us are determined by biology in how we live our lives or what we might be capable of achieving. I'm pretty sure if you sat in a project meeting or workshop and stated otherwise you'd find yourself on rocky ground in your line of work.

You might not feel that you are ruled by your genome and I'm sure you could cite a list of people who would agree. This is not enough to debunk an argument or belief.
Very often on this forum someone holds up a single example in order to refute a generalisation, its not enough unfortunately. As Bluequinn stated in his great post a generalisation is usually founded on some sort of truth. That truth may be outdated and may lead to damaging stereotype but let's look for reasons behind the stereotype rather than dismiss the whole process.

Now that the subject is not so taboo, scientists (Evolutionary Anthropologists?) are looking at these generalisations and in almost all cases finding reasonable theories (based upon experiment) as to why there are differences in, for example, the sexes. It might well be the case that these differences are a result of deliberately applied stereotyping over millennia, but as already stated that's a bit 'chicken and egg'.

Like many people on here I consider myself to be reasonably intelligent (my posts may say otherwise) and an independent person. Certainly in my teens and twenties I believed that my life would be different to those around me. Now I'm in my mid-thirties, 2 kids, married and paying two mortgages. This is instead of living in a yurt making bows for a living. So, what happened there? Fucked if I know. Some will doubtless say I have conformed. So what drove that subconcious need to provide and ensure that my kids are safe and secure? BMMF gave a perfect example of when our 'true nature' might show itself. Having kids lights up those powerful instincts.

I'm sure that none of what I am saying is new to anyone and no doubt there are plenty of counter-arguments. As yet I've not seen anyone change their mind a bit in any of these more contentious threads so I doubt I'll be the first.

Ashe to you, GA2G to most of the others.

I'm sure he's quite taken to have such an honour bestowed upon him.

Enfilade.

Fuck! Dragged into a fool resurrection! Not that I usually get it right anyway. No, I didn't nick your bike, at least I don't think so. At the time of this thread start I was still here.....

However, there's nothing stopping you shaving in the evening - with a good shave that should last all the next day.

Very true, though I have shaved in the evening for the last five years anyway.

At the risk of derailment, I'd like to see one or two of your razors if possible!

Bedford, which doesn't appear in the above list, though I suspect the only lists it would be in don't warrant a mention away from the pages of the Daily Mail. I see no fixie-skidders here despite being 55 miles from London. Tell a lie, me and Will_S_87, at present the only fixie-eedjits I know of.

A friend of mine used to work for Gillette pretty high up the marketing chain, and he told me they have invented the ultimate razor, that never dulls, never needs replacing, and will never see the light of day, as it is patented to fuck and locked away, allowing them to bring out more "inovations" to reel suckers in year after year - his own opinion was that the sensor excel was the best razor they ever made

Yikes. Along the lines of the oil companies suppressing the development of the 100mpg carb. Where's Seagal when you need him?

Obviously the development of 20 blade razors is diminishing returns but if straight razors are all that there'd be more people using them. This discussion has the whiff of the metrosexual and 'male grooming' is a bit wank really.

I do own a straight razor. I bought it after watching Angel Heart. I would not shave with it as shaving is a chore and I think needs to be done quickly. I also have a badger brush and use shaving soap as it makes shaving a weeks worth of stubble easier.

another side note:
Mitochondria do have their OWN genome, which is a truly interesting part of evolution. Look into it if interested.

I bring it up because that implies the regulation of how many of them a given cell has might involve some interesting cross talk.

i don't know.

Yeah, I'd read that before. Definitely not my field but if I remember correctly it's believed early cells incorporated and hosted the mitochondria to utilise their effective metabolic process.

Back to wiki for me. Or anything you can suggest aimed at the layman.

the article is dumb.

Werd.

I'm no chemist but his idea seems nothing more than a hunch. If lactic acid is a fuel, how is it metabolised to release further energy? The good doctor hasn't mentioned what would be in his view the 'true' waste product(s) in this extended path.

A quick look at the glycolosis path suggests it has been pretty well mapped out and is clearly understood.

There again, I had to Wiki it so I could be talking bollocks.

A friendly happy bump for Chris @ Mozz cycling who sorted me out with some lovely SS shorts and a new pair of Sprinter cut shorts, for bargainous prices - he's up there with Will @ Hubjub for me -
Awesome.

Dang. Just placed an order today too. Sprinter shorts and a softshell hoodie, although at normal price. Chris, if your reading, give me some love! Or at least some stickers.

Went bonkers for Rapha a few months ago and got decked out. Most of it will be evilbayed this weekend. It's beautiful stuff but I'm more of a ride bike to pub and the odd weekend 30 mile pootle sort of fella.

Not so old-school then...

He didn't say he was old-school, he's old Skool. That's closer to Nu Skool, only older.

See? Good.

To be honest if I'd made the chose to start carrying something as a weapon I would not worry if that item was illegal or not.

Heard in a forum where self-defense discussions are the norm:

"It's better to be judged by twelve than carried by six"

Bonkers, but I like it.

His 'n hers kettlebells?

The price is certainly a little better on non-cuban (Nicaraguan, Honduras etc) cigars and I've had a few from a friend in America that were lovely (Don Ramos and Rocky Patel IIRC). You get what you pay for though; the cheap ones I have tried are too light and the ones to rival cubans are similarly priced.
Try http://www.simplycigars.co.uk for a good range. My fave is San Cristobal El Principe as they are not too heavy and short enough to smoke in a reasonable time. Not had one for ages, this has got me going!

Another handy buy is the little humidor pouches that'll keep your cheroots at the right humidity for a while if you don't want to run a full-on humidor.

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Looks perfect!