The same detrimental effect on men can be caused by cocaine and/ or solvents.

It’s not the ‘drugs’ we consumed in this lifetime, but the quite staggering amount from previous incarnations.

It left some of us with an unquenchable thirst for urban planning…

(viewer discretion advised)

Best reference is Terence McKenna’s ‘Food of the Gods’.

Puts all these drugs into their historical context.

for me, only offering alcohol as the only legal recreational drug, discriminates against men and the disabled,

for men, all that alcohol does is make their testes shrink, placing them on a continuum of misogyny somewhere between Andy Capp and Jack the Kipper. Give them a car and they think they’re Ted Bundy.

how does alcohol discriminate agains the disabled?

it makes it quite difficult to navigate a slippery toilet, even with a walking stick.

the only work-around is to replace the wheelchair with a commode. Davros-style?

Yes, I think there’s sufficient scope for a home security/ bikepacking security topic.

when I was young, we simply didn’t use house keys. Period.

the day that I raked around the kitchen drawers and found the house keys…

I’ll save that story for another day!

I though that heroin is the synthetic version of opium?

Afaik, the whole “queen Victoria smoking cannabis to ease her menstrual cramps” turned out to be an urban myth.

Pre-petrochemical era, most medicines contained marijuana (coca-cola and tinctures of opium, too!).

Black hawk down. It’s relentless.

Exactly!!!

theres yet one more group to be galvanised under the rainbow alliance.

Nigel Farage aims to end the ‘war on motorists’.

Thus marginalised and victimised, motorists can at last seek out like minded types within the woke movement.

Diabetes isn’t painful like dying, but it’s a wretched ‘circling the drain’ feeling, nonetheless. I think they call it the ‘bonk’.

actually, it does nip a bit around the chest, as those muscles fatigue. Like being thoroughly wedged in a ravine, up to my armpits.

I think I understand why the media avoid using the term ‘intersectionalism’.

too many syllables:) :) :)

Worth purchasing a kindle for this alone:

The Emperor Wears No Clothes: A History of Cannabis/Hemp/Marijuana https://amzn.eu/d/0hPCvgzE

Hemp was too much of a rival to the emerging petrochemical fibres (rayon, nylon).

though, imho it was more about centralising revenue streams, to be channeled into the arms industry, Israel, etc).

There will be other terms within the gender discourse that could have been used.

it seems like using the term ‘woke’ as it is applied in the current media seems like a deliberate attempt to obfuscate,

as for ‘intersectionalism’ (overlap) is a new term to me.

i think I can grasp it, but I doubt it’s been used anywhere in popular culture.

Just back from Lidls with one of their keysafes.

I’ll just stash it “in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying beware of the leopard ’.

(hitchhikers guide to the galaxy).

though, I’ll still need something to keep my meds and euros safe , whilst on my hols…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke

the catchier version:

I’m awake to the fact that the English language is fluid and nuanced, depending on context.

but in the case of academic terminology, surely there’s some kind of intellectual copyright at stake.

No sooner than someones bust their guts for years to attain their doctorate, and some cerebral pansy plucks their hard won concept for their own divvity agenda.

“This washing machine incorporates cold-fusion technology to ensure your garments are sparkling white” .

us that fleischmann type cold fusion, or merely a cool wash?

In a hypothetical ‘veterinary surgery’ situation, I’d take the keys to the ends of the earth.

The streets of Loudon, awash with ketamine, and the cops suspect an inside job?

but there’s plenty of instances where someone gets lumbered with the keys to the premises.

Tbe title made it very clear “small, secure padlock indoor use”.

the actual use of the padlock is kind of irrelevant.  I could as easily be using it to chain my bikes together whilst I swan around abroad.

so, if you secured your bikes indoors with a £20 padlock, would you feel secure whilst abroad?

maybe a topic on home security, in general?

theres devices to stream footage of your home, direct to your mobile device.

but that’s assuming there’s no power or Wi-Fi outage?

I’m perplexed as to why people misappropriated a term that applied exclusively to the African-American struggle, when the existing discourse within gender research is already awash with terminology?

Makes me laugh when, as kids we’d hit out with words like ‘ravished’, when we meant ‘famished’. :)

Though tbh, none of us were anywhere near actual starvation!

Afaik, ‘woke’ was a term that originated in the USA in the 1960’s.

It only applies to the struggle of African-Americans, the dialogue between them, and the ensuing change in consciousness as they transition from a ‘class in itself’ to a ‘class for itself’.

i despair when the term woke is banded around by white liberals like myself.

its possibly as offensive to people of colour as me referring to myself as a N*****, and devalues the terms importance as a component of academic discourse.

Applying it the term to anyone else is a major semantic snafu, as its been sufficiently elaborated in academia.

Yet, we rarely hear of people complaining about how ‘existential’ their gender identity is or how they’ve been ‘valorised’.

are there any other terms we’d like to misappropriate?

Still, I’d like to leave the phone and passport in the accommodation whilst I’m swimming.

I bought the smartwatch so that I could leave the phone somewhere secure.

that said, I can anticipate scenarios where you’d want to take the keys with you in hols, and keep them secure, but maybe not on your person whilst swimming…

not just the nuclear launch codes, but if for example you owned a veterinary surgery, the locum would have your spare set of keys and you’d keep the original set with you, until you hit the beach.

but where to stash them? (rhetorical q)

Will there be any ‘roasters’ or ‘scunners’ or ‘tykes’ present? :) :) :)

Legally, if you offer to pay them with “17.5 big ones”, and they accept, then t they’re contractually bound to accept 17.5 big ones.

Baps?

that’ll do nicely!

When you’re on holiday, it’ll take a while to replace the passport?

Personally, I’d fly out with at least 200 euros, just to tide over any potential IT snafus.

id like somewhere to stash it, plus any meds.

Surely, you’d like somewhere to stash the phone whilst you’re on holiday?

I’m ambivalent about hs2

but, in the meantime, they could use that money to add new stations on existing lines.

theres a Trainline that goes through Kirkintilloch.

adding a station there would improve access and improve house prices.

the revenue from these new train stations could be ploughed back into hs2, or other projects.

if the govt wants to meet its housing targets, they’re going to need these ‘bridgeheads’ to establish new towns.

Actually, in the ‘why can’t I use my smartwatch to scan my loyalty card at the supermarket?”

Tescos. Yes.

Waitrose. Yes.

Similairly, my easyJet boarding pass materialised  on the wallet on my phone and my smartwatch. Top marks, there.

It would be convenient if I could use the smartwatch to identify myself at the gp’s surgery as well.

As for Morrisons, the staff at the self checkout area must waste so much time, trying to help customers to scan their vouchers.

I live on the corner of hyndland st, so I’m used to pretty heavy traffic. All kind of heavy banging.

But this was plain bizarre. Like night terrors. A revolting sensation.

I struggled out of the nightmare (it felt like a seismic ripple, moving east to west).

Strangely, I had to push the mattress a couple of inches, back to its original position.

i guess I’ll have to chalk it up to subsidence.

no experience with concrete, whatsoever.

but, if water naturally levels out, maybe this process can be assisted if there was some kind of perforated mat that could be laid out prior to the application of concrete.

connected by a hose, compressed air could be blown in. The bubbles would agitate the concrete, smoothing out any lumps and keeping the mixture fluid enough until it sets.

Or would it just end up packed full of voids?

Just saying there’s a similar lack of design flair. Are people running out of ideas?

“Whet’s to stop someone taking the box?”

airtag?

another consideration for ‘box 101’, is the device that you use for 2-factor identification. You’ll surely take that along to your air-n-b?

as my myasthenia gravis progresses, it will feel liberating to rationalise all the excess baggage.

for example, I’m offloading a bunch of Stephen king novels, as i can find them at a reasonable price to download. And with the weakness of my eyes, the kindle makes much more sense.

And my mobile phone is starting to feel like a house brick.

Even at my pneumonia vaccination yesterday, I couldn’t unscrew the lid of my juice bottle. I ended up binning it, as I figured that if I’m struggling in that respect, I’ll probably struggle to swallow anything fizzy.

im positive that they’ll discover a cure within the decade, but until then:

Still waiting on the big supermarkets, etc to allow us to scan our loyalty cards by using our smartwatches.

Doesnt need to be the entire suite of IT permutations. Just transfer the unique barcode and discount options.

Simples.

Im fed up turning up at Morrisons, clutching a fistful of discounts and special offers. Or forgetting to take them in the first place.

And paying with my mobile is nice, but it’s starting to feel like a house brick.

I should have removed this

https://amzn.eu/d/0f3SPfkh

prior to flying. Very handy in emergencies.

But, understandably, potentially alarming to cabin crew.

” Why, what was inside it? An action-man sized gun?”

Nah, just a tightly folded £20 note.

So, it was confiscated at security, but they let me keep the cash.

I had been thinking about one of these:

https://amzn.eu/d/0d3kVDEU

tgtbt?

still, moon on a string…

A safe box like something out of the movies, looks like one of those flat safe deposit boxes that you used to find in banks…biometric entry, airtagged, room for passport , cash, jewellery, phone, bank cards, hastily scribbled passwords, etc.

just to take on hols when there’s no proper safe available.

I think the problem with tattoos is that the designs are so cliched.

the idea behind people being administered DMT (legally mandated, under clinical supervision), was to bring back from these higher dimensions, some kind of art.

But so far I’ve seen no inspiring tattoos, no revelatory duvet cover designs at ikea. Not so much as a trippy cushion cover.

come on people. It’s only the shackles of cultural convention and the law that’s holding you back. (Don’t try this at home):)

@robola

well, if they behave themselves, we’ll see what Santa brings:)

Yeah.

i think I’ll just go for one of those small safes.

initially, I figured that something compact with an included hasp would make sense on the foreign trips. Not much fun trying to swim, with that level of accoutrement.

its really that bad! House keys, window keys, bike lock keys, e-bike battery keys, bank cards and soooooo much faff!

turning up at gigs, the poor door staff have one look inside my man bag, and nearly faint at the sheer amount of crap inside.

hotel safe? Perhaps. But what about self catering accommodations?

And I’ve got a feeling that if I snap my femur whilst out and about, then is prefer less faff to check in at hospital.

I think it’s a common sentiment to wish to embellish any cash box with a fairly solid padlock.

id have considered one of those tiny padlocks that you see on the end of motorbike chains.

but, I’d rather the semi-circular part was about 8mm in diameter, just to broaden its compatibility with steel boxes like the one in the original picture.

that box was only for illustration purposes, just to articulate just how small a lock I was looking for (that’s not crap).

so, if there’s any small padlocks (not crap)…

and a very big  thank you for your comments:)

lol. The question really concerned fairly inexpensive padlocks.

the actual container for the valuables, that’s a secondary concern. If push comes to shove, a pukka tool box should suffice, if somewhat bulky.

From a search on Amazon, there seems to be a gap in the market for small, secure metal boxes that can be secured with a padlock, without having to worry about the hinges being tapped out.

I’ve actually got a cash box, but I’d guess that the lock is a joke.

So, as the post outlined, any small secure padlocks that aren’t pants?

I haven’t seen one of these integrated into a multi tool:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/305031728429?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=awvrd1pmtxs&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=gwW0qHEeSsW&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

Decathlon seem to be the goto for plastic tyre levers.

^^maybe in a version for anyone  who struggles to pronounce ‘Trossachs, Loch, etc’^^

https://youtu.be/oysoioL6ZmY?si=PO5NCx5rNJfqJfvX

That these are no longer in print:

Nice, handy A6 size.

Maybe included with a subs to STW?

Back to the kindle.

You download a sample of a book. Then when you buy the book, it still retains the sample in your library. Why? It’s just a waste of storage, and it’s all too easy to click on the sample, instead of the purchased version.

GRRRRRRR!

and at this price, doesn’t it warrant a reprint?

By Tom Prentice [ LOCH LOMOND AND THE TROSSACHS NATIONAL PARK 60 WALKS WESTBY PRENTICE, TOM](AUTHOR)PAPERBACK https://amzn.eu/d/01yXTUj8

it’s still relevant ten years after its last edition. It’s not like the hills have up-sticks and taken off:)

My widest shoe so far is the altra Mont Blanc.

incredibly light. Maybe puruse their range of hiking boots?