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What a great idea! See, this is the problem. If I plan to go nuts, I'm hardly going to prevent myself by doing something illegal before the big crime. Kinda like being a Jedi all the way up to Korriban, and then turning to the Dark Side and becoming a Sith for the rest of the game. This is where some form of provisional licencing would be useful. Even having a gun club (for example) sponsoring people, like a co-signatory on a loan. It is a bit silly in the UK, however, as the Olympic Pistol team have to travel overseas to practice ... The problem isn't the prevalence of guns, it is the poor management of the purchase. It seems more difficult to get a licence for a dog.

Combat-kick-boxercisey-type aerobics class.

See, I find most exercise therapeutically relaxing, too. When running, or swimming especially, the rhythmic breathing (the primary component of meditation) and gentle exertion puts me into "the zone".

They pushed me QUITE hard to get me to drink anything. (I've an addictive personality so I don't touch things that are mildly addictive except caffine.) and i've got a friend who was nieve and a bit of an idiot, He didn't know what a controled substance was and ended up selling his ritalin in high school (got caught too). Then he joined the army and promptly became an alcoholic. its... not pretty. Ah, na

Everything on the soundtrack from Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket and Good Morning, Vietnam.

I did a new combat course today. I thought I'd have to go for a run afterwards to get some cardiovascular exercise, but then it got good.

In Crete?

I was being unkind, there.

At last! A clue! So Ed-D'Oh, what war did you grow up fighting? Congratulations on displaying the empathy of a psychopath. I suppose you would extend your philosophy to others butchering you for small change, raping and murdering your loved (a big assumption, I know, but I'm talking hypothetically and assuming you have a shred of humanity) because you matter not at all. Or are you a hypocrite as well? And now I wonder why anyone would want to live in the same society as you.

I liked the story of λ.

You can't. But I can. And I have. And I added six votes for Freedom Force (and three each to the "Yes" and "Indifferent" first categories). Because I can.

Yes, the burnt baby fears fire, long after the memory is gone. Still, I enjoyed swimming in a more leisurely environment, even though I spent a large amount of time training in a 50m pool when I was young. (Part of the enjoyment, I found, is being able to get out whenever you want, so that you are only swimming against yourself.) Makes for a nice adjunct to gym training on a hot Summer's day at university, I can tell you.

So you were ignoring him?!?11/1!?one1/1!

We were being kind.

What number series are the Simpsons up to, twenty?

Yeah, I liked it. (Though Xen can go to a special hell.)

You need more telephone lines.

Yeah, but swimming has the added incentive that if you don't swim, you'll drown. Always ensures a high minimum effort, I find. Also good to be around a pool in a sunny clime, with lots of members of the appropriate gender wearing not-very-much for the obligatory post-dip chat ...

Did someone say guide horses?

Better not drink any water, then, as it's all got fish poo in it ...

Anyone can swim: whilst exercising in this way, all the organs of the body are massaged.

When the constitution of the USA was drafted, it was the most forward-looking and modern document of its type. Equal rights weren't dolled out by the founding fathers because they were operating upon the society built by the Georgians, i.e. British Empire (although the George's were from Germany ), which still has no constitution btw. Universal suffrage didn't occur (at a national level) until Haiti (which wrote human rights into their constitution in 1804: the first country ever to do so). Britain was still moving 40k slaves through their territorial waters at this time. Haiti was the second independent country in the New World, and the only successful slave rebellion in world history. Until the French extorted reparations from them to end the blockade; even the Vatican withdrew its priests from Haiti and did not return them until 1860. France demanded, and got, an indemnity of 150 million francs in 1833. (Haiti was the richest island in the Caribbean at the time of the rebellion under Toussaint L'Ouverture.)

Happy Birthday, Calax.

Zombies don't sleep.

Definitely get some good shoes. Also be careful on the surface upon which you run; I had horrendous pain (not immediately afterwards, sometimes as much as a day later) where my knees felt like someone was uses a melon scoop to scrape out the inside of my patellas ... (I was running on concrete; changing to grass and more IT band stretching to ensure contractions in the quadriceps due to lack of hydration or post stress recovery didn't pull on the IT band and cause the above-mentioned pain.)