SC Superlight?

Got some nice kit recently at the Dell Outlet site, Sony Vaio have a similar outlet site.

Black Sabbath, possibly the most influential band ever?

Definitely interested in this, though I was kind of waiting for the Firefox phone.

Try Dell Outlet, you get some good value machines there at times. You get a better warranty from Dell Outlet Business than you do from regular Dell Outlet. Also check out some of the UK based custom builders – forget names – they seemed to be next best in terms of value/spec when I went on a recent pc buying spree.

Interesting R4 prog on this last night

2012: The end of time

As Neal De Grasse Tyson said why take the word of a civilisation who didn’t even have the wheel (or metal tools).

No real experience of them but really like the breed (as others have said Pointers are similar dogs), one of the few breeds able to give my lurcher a run for his money.

I’ve used c:geo seems to work. Haven’t really used it that much so unsure of any limitations.

The North/South divide mapped

From here

We bought my daughter one at two, she never liked it and never used it.

So good I posted it twice 8)

3rd May 1998, Arsenal vs Everton, first part of the double and the start of a lost weekend

specifically

Has to be Coldplay.

Is the correct answer.

Been thinking about this for a while, as 29ers>>>>>26ers 8) – go big wheels I reckon.

Saw this Micros Scooter in JL nice but very spendy

there’s a few on Amazon UK

That Hudora is available pretty cheaply on German Amazon

Xootr’s seem to be the nicest by far but £200ish is well above my spending power for a scooter

I looked long and hard into getting a doodle, you can get different sized ones depending on which variety of poodle is in the cross, Standard or Miniature presuming not Toy. But some doodles, those crossed with Standard poodles can be absolutely massive.

Also what’s the fascination with “clever” dogs, wish my Lurcher was a bit more stupid, the sneaky bar steward.

If I was going to get another dog I’d be looking at Cockerpoos, the ones that I’ve met in puppy training classes have been wonderful dogs, both to look at and temperamentally. (Small sample granted)

I totally love your dog, what is it? Spinone?

Screen shoot out Nexus vs Fire HD vs iPad – Hint iPad loses

Display shoot out ipad mini, vs Kindle Fire vs Nexus 7, surprising result (well for me anyway)

Watched this show last night, been on my pvr since broadcast but found it quite revelatory. Ok it was almost seemed structured as an advertorial for the 5:2 diet but given that I’m sold.

It’s not that I even need to lose weight really, although a few pounds off would be nice, it’s that the idea of being a bit hungry for a couple of days a week could extend your life potentially by years and prevent you from getting any/many of the common illnesses of ageing. BBC blurb here sure it’s been on this thread before.

Gratuitous pic of Dr Krista Varady here>

mook bark

Very interesting but put off by effective CS length of 450mm/17.7 inches isn’t that really long? Also “only” 2.35″ max tyre size

Barney the crap dog. Whippet/Collie cross we think.

Ask an estate agent? Had house valued recently and estate agent brought around list of everything sold recently and historically back to 2006ish

Nexus 4 review from the Verge – think it’s my next phone

Why do you need all that space? All my content, (books, music, magazines, etc) is all on the web (or in ‘the cloud’).

I’m a bit of a cloud unbeliever at this stage, although bought 20gigs worth of Amazon cloud for £6. Rather have everything local, just using cloud for backups. In the same way I’d rather have a NAS drive at home than just rely on the cloud.

Unable to get anything particularly tasty on my upgrade (with Virgin) I’ve got a pretty much everything unlimited deal for £8 pm, how times have changed.

It’s upgrade time for me, seriously looking at the Nexus 4, cheap but only 16gb and no SD card slot, for the love of god why. And then there’s the currently unavailable Xperia V, LTE and water/dust proof. New Motorolas look pretty good too. Or just stick with the desire and buy a tablet, decisions decisions.

What is the financial cost when compared to real smoking???

The hardware can cost quite a bit if you become a hobbyist but if you discount that I’ve no idea tbh, I’ve bought loads of different flavours trying to find out what I like, however I just bought 30ml of Decadent Vapours Mentholyptus (yummy btw) for £13, will easily last a month.

passive e-smoking

not sure if serious but

No Evidence Of “Passive Vaping” in Non-Vapers’ Blood Counts

Out of genuine interest, after so long without cigarettes,, presumably without any nicotine substitute for some time now, what got you on to the vapour cigs?

Ah I obviously didn’t make it clear, “giving up” for 15 years means trying to give up for 15 years, whether it was an hour, a day, a week, a month or a year I always went back to the smokes.

It’s like the old gag, “giving up fags is easy, I’ve done it loads of times”.

Anyways so I saw an advert in the Metro newspaper for a “free” Gamucci e-cig, found it worked ok but I was looking into different ways to refill the cartridges and stumbled upon the world of vaping.

They’re totally legal in the UK, how long that remains the case wait to be seen. I think we’re at the start of some sort of vaping boom however once the government notice too big a drop in tax take and the pharma companies have lobbied them hard enough I’m sure they’ll be banned for “health” reasons.

NICE say

NICE, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, has just launched a new consultation on draft guidelines for people who can’t quit smoking. (and presumably people who don’t want to quit smoking)

The main body of the draft is based around NRT (gum, patches, lozenges etc) and it is now recommending that people who cannot quit should use these products to “cut down”.

In terms of electronic cigarettes, NICE say this:

“Advisers should inform people who smoke that some nicotine-containing products (for example, electronic cigarettes) are not currently regulated by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency and so their safety and quality can’t be assured. However, tell them that these products are likely to be less harmful than cigarettes.”

NICE will not recommend e-cigs, because they are not a medicinal product, but the change in policy is significant – Advisers should tell them that these products are likely to be less harmful than cigarettes – this is a step forward from “we cannot recommend them”, the previous policy.

This is guidance forms part of a consultation that will run between 24th October and 19th December 2012.

The final outcome is due to be published in May 2013, co-incidently, the same time the the MHRA is due to anounce a ‘light touch’ regulation of e-cigs.

Ah welcome to the world of Vaping, been smoking 30 years, giving up for 15 and never have I felt so free of tobacco as I do now. Only problem is I’m now addicted to vaping but hey ho.

Soon you’ll ditch the cig-a-likes as they are pretty cruddy and get yourself a decent bit of kit, you don’t really have to spend any more than the laughably overpriced cig-a-like kits but you get a much better battery, a better nicotine hit and possibly another expensive hobby.

Find out about variable voltage vaping, clearomisers, rebuildable atomisers, cartomisers, mods etc. I’m only beginning to get a grip on it myself after looking into it for about a month.

If you’re going to spend that sort of dosh you’re much better off with something like an ego-c starter kit.

Even if you don’t want to go all in there are much better kits out there for you for about £20 than the crap that 10motives will sell you, although they are pretty useful for backups.

There are a few very useful message boards out there, all about e cigarettes, UK Vapers, and some others, feel free to ask questions.

I agree with many of the policies of Gary Johnson the libertarian candidate in the US election

Not a lot of detail under “issues” but certainly doesn’t seem to be psychopathic.

Are socialists marked by psychopathy because some of histories biggest mass murderer were socialists?

Isle of Skye looks horrifying – not sure I could live anywhere with no trees. Good episode though, although after the last two weeks it filling the 47 minutes seemed a bit of a stretch. Such a shame about the lack of view from the bedroom.

My Oro’s needed zero maintenance for 4 years, shame all the bolts were made of cheese which is why I binned them for BB7’s

Saw them over 100 times between 86 and 90 ish, happy days, kind of lost interest as I got more and more into rave. Shame they never produced anything which touched their live shows. I was close-ish to the band at one point and know they were offered a major label deal, can’t help feeling with a decent producer they could have achieved something on a wider stage. Absolutely incredible live.

Although maybe some don’t stand the test of time

but beware it has a rightwing, creationist, anti-science slant

Thought it was generally regarded as (American use of word), liberal.

Q – But what happens when you get old?

Answer – I’ll still be badasss

Not really weird, it’s even been on Blue Peter

Windstopper is all you need imo down to about 7c, synthetic base layer after that, keep hands and feet warm, ride faster.

Not mine but possible lottery win bike

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