Walsingham

I had a friend who was a climber. He had these dinky hand strengtheners. the important difference between these and those 'squeaky hinge' types was that this one had a separate spring for each finger. Might be too hard though. I do sympathise, because although my pain is very very minor I have problems with the knuckles in my right hand from muay thai. *tries to look tough and fails*

I am curious... why is sex a "personal" thing? I would have thought it a natural thing, to be tought together with biology, anatomy, genealogy etc. in biology class. Sex ed is more about the emotional part of a physical relationship, about how one can react when the body is invaded by endorphines and/or a partners "liquids" no? It's like... I can know a lot about car mechanics without knowing how to drive, where mechanics is to biology what driving is to making love/having sex. I suppose it is logical to have both in the same class but should we have sex ed in bio or bio in sex ed? Anyway my point was that parents don't do enough and rely on schools too much. Some things, like religion and sex/love should be tought within the family first, with school as support. Parents, judging by the divorce rate, don't have a bloody clue. I know I don't know what the hell I'd tell people about not getting pinged. Maybe this is the point we only teach the really serious "You will burst into flames and die" things like STDs and getting pregnant because it would be a lie to do otherwise.

I did about three useful things today, and now I'm off to the pub. I love my life.

Still absolutely loving my new electric griddle. Mixed some minced turkey with rocket pesto from a jar, pressed the bugger flat and fifteen minutes later delicious burgers! How awesome is that? And it cleans in two or three wipes of a sponge. Anyone know any good recipes for a slow cooker?

Despite being insanely drunk/hungover I managed to: 1. Install my RAM and graphics cards without incident! 2. Convince the delivery people for my washing machine that I was a friendly chap and didn't need to pay for delivery (they were mostly amused by my condition). 3. Be overcome with my own incompetence while installing the washing machine, smash a hole in my kitchen units (they're ghastly anyway), put the machine in place four separate times, without power, water, and latterly not outlet connection. My kitchen briefly flooded. 4. Cook more steaks, steamed veg, and also a rather fine salad of tomatoes, oranges, pepper, mozzarella, and sweet balsamic vinegar. 5. I even did some tidying up.

You're a magic pixie. Give me the magic hangover cure, you shiny wee bastard.

Dear sweet mercy. Drinking last night after a fantastic game of football on the telly. Woke this morning to discover I'd gone to sleep in my clothes with teh lights on after putting a steak in to marinade (?). Thirsty. Still drunk. No-one is to pay any attention to anything I say until 1800 hrs at the earliest.

A certain poetic justice there, then. EDIT: In Engalnd we have a poet laureate. Maybe he/she should get a place with the Law Lords.

Oh, come on now. You know how I feel about the bulk of humanity. Yeah, and if you do that then they'll reciprocate.

You mean like when your arm is bitten off?

A squaddie friend of mine refit his Land Rover 'Monty' to run on cooking oil. Would get it free from the local chippy then purify it, and it ran as well as it ever did. And yeah, smelt nicer. Certainly a good idea.

That would be appallingly not sensible. Missile control speeds, and counter-measure control speeds are far too fast to allow for humans to control them via datalinks. As for the other objections, I'm not having a go at anyone. The accepted wisdom is that missiles and torpedoes rule. However, I am arguing that this supremacy is dependent on an era when anti-air, anti-missile, and anti-torpedo weapons were poor to non-existent. The most cursory look at sites like globalsecurity.org will show you that is no-longer the case. If you run with my notion, and accept that missiles can be shot down or confused, then battle becomes fruitless. At which point having something which chucks salvoes of dumb but very tough things around could come in handy.

Every animal has the potential being dangerous, even us humans, no matter if they are in the wild or be supposed "tame" beasts. What they need to do is to teach their kids to treat animals and each other with respect and know that animals largely act on instinct. Well, yes. Like sexually transmitted viruses. And prophylactics are like puttees.

You chaps should think about fuel made from reclaimed cooking fat. It is not only quite cheap, as deisel goes, but it also smells nice.

Pics of Anne Coulter and Rush Limbaugh getting it on? For the love of common humanity... NO.

I think that qualify as auto-cannibalism, and as a hobby I can't helping feeling it would be shortlived.

I don't see much difference between being taught sex ed, and the stuff I got growing up in Africa about not bothering snakes and lions. *laughs* Having said that I've met some damn hippies who try to tell their kids not to treat animals as dangerous because we're all children of the Earth and so on. LOL

Breaking news: I just bit my own finger while eating toast. Man, I have strong teeth. And really painful fingers. Now.

It's to prevent a recession, not help you. True, but wouldn't it make more sense to give out some sort of voucher that works for the most recession hit industries? Rather than oil?

The taxis aren't cheap. I guess I should have clarified that I walk almost everywhere. The taxis are for journeys above 5 miles.

Apparently the shape of a kukri makes a massive differences to the way it cuts. The Greeks and Spartans also used a similar shape. Even inexpertly it can damn near cut a chap in two. I had a great quote on the subject from a manual on jungle warfare, but I've lost the bloody thing. The relevance of this to cooking is that I very much enjoy cooking big feasts for friends, and doubly so over summer. I was thinking about gettinga big cleaver so I can do pig roasts and vension. Then I read the aforementioned quote.

The bits have arrived. Any final advice? Otherwise I'm going to open this sucker up and hammer in the parts with a flyswat.

Overtime and weird shifts rule. I used to enjoy working them. Now I get paid fixed salary. No more fun... Speaking of which we worked out that while doing our Army stufff we earn

That was true twenty years ago, but missile defence and countermeasures have vastly improved. Missiles are great, but they are dumb, and they are flimsy.

Call me cynical old conspiracy tehorist, but doesn't this just siphon cash into the hands of profiteering companies? Shouldn't the gas companies take a hit? I mean they've been making record profits for years...