Re: I'm weird
Jim
> OK, I definitely gone completely weird. I already:
>
> 1. Smoke a pipe.
> 2. Enjoy fine spirits like Armagnac, Calvados and Single Malt Scotch.
>
> Now I've added shaving with a straight razor.
>
> Somehow I feel like I've been born a century out of date.
Culture.
Jim
--
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My Oasis of Calm has dried up. However, my Garden of Angry is
flourishing quite nicely.
Maarten Wiltink
news:86prayd...@gareth.avalon.lan...
> OK, I definitely gone completely weird. I already:
>
> 1. Smoke a pipe.
> 2. Enjoy fine spirits like Armagnac, Calvados and Single Malt Scotch.
>
> Now I've added shaving with a straight razor.
>
> Somehow I feel like I've been born a century out of date.
You're asking for it. No Red Bull for you anymore, and please turn over
that computer and start writing correspondence longhand again. With a
dip pen.
We're living in the future. Wallow in it. Don't spurn good things for
being either old _or_ new.
Tebrgwrf,
Maarten Wiltink
David Cameron Staples
> "Gallian" <gal...@linuxmail.org> wrote in message
> news:86prayd...@gareth.avalon.lan...
> You're asking for it. No Red Bull for you anymore, and please turn over
> that computer and start writing correspondence longhand again. With a
> dip pen.
I'm in the SCA. I write long legal documents in elaborate hands *for fun*.
--
DCS@home
Peter H. Coffin
After all, stuff gets to be "classic" for a reason. (On the other hand,
while people may be nostalgic about things like carburators, I don't
think anyone that actually makes a living repairing cars really MINDS
that pretty much all vehicles come with computer-controlled fuel
injectors instead, just like we don't mind not having to fuss with
open-reel tape storage on a regular basis.)
--
63. Bulk trash will be disposed of in incinerators, not compactors. And they
will be kept hot, with none of that nonsense about flames going through
accessible tunnels at predictable intervals.
--Peter Anspach's list of things to do as an Evil Overlord
Gordon Henderson
Gallian <gal...@linuxmail.org> wrote:
>OK, I definitely gone completely weird. I already:
>
>1. Smoke a pipe.
Hm.
My dad smoked a pipe. Maybe still does, I've no idea.
He used to rub his own tobacco - if you could call it that. It was more
like a block of tar. He'd cut a slice or 2 off, rub it in his palm,
then stuff his pipe with it.
Then use his welders torch to light it. (Or his Ronson flamethrower when
at home)
He smoked stuff called "Thick Black" (I kid you not) and some other stuff
called (I think) Reever Plug. He'd sit inside what looked like billowing
clouds of foul smelling fug, seemingly enjoying what he was doing.
I remember when we moved out one house we were in, after being there for
about 2 years and noticing how the walls behind the posters, etc. were
actually pale blue and not dark yellow like the rest of the room.
$deity only knows what it did to my developing lungs.
>2. Enjoy fine spirits like Armagnac, Calvados and Single Malt Scotch.
Well, thats OK. Being a scott, I can appreciate some of that that
too... But not too much these days.
>Now I've added shaving with a straight razor.
Hm. I never did get on with those new fangled electrical things. When
not with a full beard I've been down the triple-bladed face-ripper &
shave oil route for some years now.
Actually the oil stuff has been a bit of a relevation. Fantastic. Who'd
a thunk.
I did find myself away from home and in need of a shave a while back -
a trip to the local grfpb (spit) for some of the cheapest and nastiest
razors they had - worked out at 2.5p per twin-blade disposable razor. (I
pity the third world manufacturing people making them), but after a shower
and with a dab of the finest olive oil I could find in their kitchen,
it actually did what it was supposed to do..
>Somehow I feel like I've been born a century out of date.
Corsets and crinolines at dawn, eh? ;-)
Gordon
Robert Uhl
> OK, I definitely gone completely weird. I already:
>
> 1. Smoke a pipe.
> 2. Enjoy fine spirits like Armagnac, Calvados and Single Malt Scotch.
>
> Now I've added shaving with a straight razor.
>
> Somehow I feel like I've been born a century out of date.
You are me, on all counts.
Incidentally, what's your favourite tobacco? Right now I think I'm
kinda partial to Frog Morton on the Town...
--
Robert A. Uhl
Our goverment 'invests' in roads, but 'subsidises' public transport.
--Peter Corlett
Robert Uhl
>
> I'm in the SCA. I write long legal documents in elaborate hands *for fun*.
*snarf*
--
Robert A. Uhl
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his
hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
--H.L. Mencken
mikea
In what language? You may find <http://mikea.ath.cx/credentials/DSC00286.JPG>
and other files in that directory to be interesting.
--
"I Adjure Thee, O Foul Demon of The Sinus, by this Leatherman Tool and
this Fully Earthed 30 Amp Power Strip! Remain Thou within the Faraday
Cage and Answer the Questions put to Thee, and I shall Discharge Thee
that Thou mayest return from Whence Thou Camest." -- Peter da Silva
LP
>
> 1. Smoke a pipe.
I don't smoke any more (managed to kick that habit) but I do own
a pipe. I find chewing on a pipestem helps me think. They're
also incredibly useful for pointing at things.
I've got a vague plan to fit it out as a laser pointer at some point
so I can point at things which are further away.
> 2. Enjoy fine spirits like Armagnac, Calvados and Single Malt Scotch.
Is that weird now? Blimey.
I'm developing a taste for Gin at the moment, which I'm a bit more
concerned by.
> Now I've added shaving with a straight razor.
I've not quite stepped up to a straight razor yet, but I had a handlebar
moustache for a bit. I'm currently beardy, but more because I can't be
bothered to shave than any grand plan.
I do however own three good quality silk top hats, but wear none of them.
> Somehow I feel like I've been born a century out of date.
I get the impression that whatever century I'd been born in, it would feel
like the wrong one.
I got a new next door neighbour a couple of months back, from talking to
him it seems that he's your average football loving, cheap lager drinking,
Simply Red fan - nice chap, but the sort who is likely to list "watching
TV" as a hobby.
I was out in the back garden, working away in a flurry of hand tools and
wood shavings, when he leaned over the fence and asked what I was up to.
I explained that I was building a problem light for my wall at work,
which would come on automatically whenever there was a problem which
needs fixing[1]
He looked at me like I had said "drowning puppies"
-Paul
[1] a fairly simple task to achieve really, just leave out the "off" switch
LP
>
> Erm, no.
>
> Carburettor = can diagnose and fix with basic mechanical tools.
>
> CCFI = need expensive diagnostic computer (which won't have all the
> error codes, because those are saved for the manufacturer's official
> service centres), can replace part with a spare but if that spare isn't
> in stock there's nothing that can be done. And keeping every likely
> spare in stock is very pricey.
I would rather deal with either end of those extremes than try and
deal with the fuel injection system in by MOTAS Mk1 VW Corrado again.
Mechanical fuel injection is weird.
-Paul
--
http://paulseward.com
Shmuel Metz
at 11:57 AM, Gallian <gal...@linuxmail.org> said:
>1. Smoke a pipe.
Suicidal, not wierd.
>2. Enjoy fine spirits like Armagnac, Calvados and Single Malt Scotch.
Enjoying fine spirits is normal. Now, if you preferred bathtub gin *that*
would be wierd.
>Now I've added shaving with a straight razor.
Out of fashion, yes. Wierd? No way.
--
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Reply to domain Patriot dot net user shmuel+bspfh to contact me.
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Shmuel Metz
at 12:45 PM, David Cameron Staples <sta...@cs.mu.oz.au.SPAM> said:
>I'm in the SCA.
So was Poul Anderson (z"l), and he certainly wasn't wierd.
>I write long legal documents in elaborate hands *for fun*.
That's certainly more normal than being nostalgic about the ghastly
computers of my misspent youth. --
Shmuel Metz
at 12:55 PM, "Peter H. Coffin" <hel...@ninehells.com> said:
>just like we don't mind not having to fuss with
>open-reel tape storage on a regular basis.)
Yes, QIC-80 is so much more reliable than open reel.
Coat? It's on the 355.
Howard S Shubs
Gallian <gal...@linuxmail.org> wrote:
> Now I've added shaving with a straight razor.
I'm considering the straight razor. How do you like it so far?
--
Don't bother with piddly crap like "gun control".
Life is 100% fatal. Ban it.
Howard S Shubs
Roger Burton West <roger+a...@nospam.firedrake.org> wrote:
> Except that I don't bother with the shaving part at all.
http://www.classicshaving.com/articles/article/590351/5376.htm
Howard S Shubs
Gallian <gal...@linuxmail.org> wrote:
> The barber that sold me mine told me to go easy, and just stick to the
> cheeks and sideburns along the grain for the first week. Sensible
> advice, really.
Same advice I'm seeing on certain websites, yes. Example (of such a
website, though I'm not seeing that advice right off, I know it's there):
http://www.classicshaving.com/articles/article/590351/5669.htm
> First two shaves went so well, I started the third to do my whole face,
> and I'm slowly getting the hang of it, even going for a second pass
> against the grain as of today.
So, improvement after a week, then.
> So far, as long as I can keep my tendency to press down on the blade too
> hard, it feels great. A really smooth shave, very little razor burn (and
> if I let up on the pressure, virtually none), no ingrown hairs, and even
> slightly less nicks than a safety razor.
Hm!
> But it is damned difficult. Taking it real slow is the ticket. If you
> can keep the hurry down and plan to take between 15 and 30 minutes at
> first, you'll get it soon enough.
Wow, that's slow. Maybe it's not for me. :-(
LP
>
>>I'm developing a taste for Gin at the moment, which I'm a bit more
>>concerned by.
>
It's too early to tell yet, I'm only really just starting to accumulate
bottles of anything interesting.
My current favourite is Tanqueray, and in pubs I will head for a Bombay
Sapphire as a safe bet so you could say I was leaning towards London - but
I've not really explored enough yet to make any more educated decisions.
> I thought for years I didn't like the stuff, but then tried some...
Indeed. I'm just begining to discover this - especially now that I've
stopped drowning it in tonic and can actually taste the gin.
-Paul
--
http://paulseward.com
Joe Zeff
> I've not quite stepped up to a straight razor yet, but I had a handlebar
> moustache for a bit. I'm currently beardy, but more because I can't be
> bothered to shave than any grand plan.
My Mom has always hated those, because in her opinion, only bartenders
wore them. Maybe at some time, it was even true. My mustache droops
down about an inch on each side[1] and when I remember, I use a little
hair goop on it and make it curl under, rather like a small, reverse
handlebar.
[1]No, I don't trim it like that, it just doesn't grow any further. For
that matter, my hair tends to stay about the same length in the back
without cutting. I do wish I could persuade it to grow a tad longer.
--
Joe Zeff -- The Guy With The Sideburns:
http://www.zeff.us http://www.lasfs.info
I mean, if it was an obscenity filter, I could understand
it rejecting on, say, 'Windows'.
Joe Zeff
> London, Plymouth or Hendricks?
Being Type II, I almost never indulge any more. On the all-to-rare times
that I do, it's Bols Genever. The fact that it's the only gin in the
house may have something to do with that, or it may be the other way
around.
--
Joe Zeff -- The Guy With The Sideburns:
http://www.zeff.us http://www.lasfs.info
I don't do hardware. Or rather, I don't usually get asked to do
hardware things a second time.
Alex Elsayed
> Though I've recently for the first time in my life picked up one
> of those plastic gilette[0] jobbies in anger, and shaved with it.
>
> Five minutes of hacking away with a dry razor produced a nice clean
> shave, no nicks, and no uncomfortable feeling either.
>
> Apparently that's not how it's supposed to go.
You are not alone. It is, however, quite useful when you want to make
someone wince.
Alex Elsayed
> Michel Buijsman wrote:
>
>>Though I've recently for the first time in my life picked up one
>>of those plastic gilette[0] jobbies in anger, and shaved with it.
>>Five minutes of hacking away with a dry razor produced a nice clean
>>shave, no nicks, and no uncomfortable feeling either.
>
> Last time I shaved that was the way it worked for me. Mind you I got
> through about two of the cheap nasty blades per shave.
>
I've found that using a pin to remove debris from between the blades
prolongs their life considerably.
mikea
A thin jet of water (Water Pik, needle shower, etc.) works at least as
well and has the advantage of not damaging the edge on the blades. The
razors generally are made so that you can direct water between the blades
from behind as well as from the front; for debris that's well wedged, the
approach from the back of the razor works very nicely.
--
"Rack mount machines look nice, no doubt about it, but they were never
meant to be worked on. If the fellow who invented them were anywhere
near me last night, he would be 1U high right now." - Tom Liston
Alex Elsayed
> Alex Elsayed <etern...@gmail.com> wrote in <h64i2i$cv3$1...@news.eternal-
september.org>:
>> Roger Burton West wrote:
>>
>>> Michel Buijsman wrote:
>>>
>>>>Though I've recently for the first time in my life picked up one
>>>>of those plastic gilette[0] jobbies in anger, and shaved with it.
>>>>Five minutes of hacking away with a dry razor produced a nice clean
>>>>shave, no nicks, and no uncomfortable feeling either.
>>>
>>> Last time I shaved that was the way it worked for me. Mind you I got
>>> through about two of the cheap nasty blades per shave.
>>>
>> I've found that using a pin to remove debris from between the blades
>> prolongs their life considerably.
>
> A thin jet of water (Water Pik, needle shower, etc.) works at least as
> well and has the advantage of not damaging the edge on the blades. The
> razors generally are made so that you can direct water between the blades
> from behind as well as from the front; for debris that's well wedged, the
> approach from the back of the razor works very nicely.
>
Hm, I'll have to try that. Unfortunately, that will require purchasing such
a device, as my sinks and shower have insufficient pressure to be capable of
such things. (My shower being more the kind that throws gobs of water in a
rough stream, rather than needles.)
Zebee Johnstone
Peter H. Coffin <hel...@ninehells.com> wrote:
>
> After all, stuff gets to be "classic" for a reason. (On the other hand,
> while people may be nostalgic about things like carburators, I don't
> think anyone that actually makes a living repairing cars really MINDS
> that pretty much all vehicles come with computer-controlled fuel
> injectors instead, just like we don't mind not having to fuss with
> open-reel tape storage on a regular basis.)
They do if they don't have access to the computer.
At least if you have 40mm pumper Dellortos you can tune the things!
RIght now the injection on my Norge is a black box and I can't fix the
too lean down low or the too rich up top.
Access to said computer is about to be available at US$1200 or so.
And that is only because someone wanted it badly enough to go rather
into hock for it.
Zebee
Zebee Johnstone
Michel Buijsman <ab...@rubberchicken.nl> wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:31:55 GMT, LP wrote:
>> On 2009-08-14, Gallian <gal...@linuxmail.org> wrote:
>>> Now I've added shaving with a straight razor.
>>
>> moustache for a bit. I'm currently beardy, but more because I can't be
>> bothered to shave than any grand plan.
>
>
> Though I've recently for the first time in my life picked up one
> of those plastic gilette[0] jobbies in anger, and shaved with it.
>
I've been reading this thread with interest and I've only just
clicked... That using electric shavers seems to be the default in the
US.
I don't know that many men who use them here. Blade shaving various
is the usual way to go.
Most use the triple whatsits, but some people are going back to the
old style single blade safety razor (so not as far back as a
straight..) although those who do say you have to be careful with
angle or you cut yourself to pieces.
Zebee
Zebee Johnstone
Gallian <gal...@linuxmail.org> wrote:
>
> It was chock full of people who wore uniforms. They think of themselves
> as independent, but they're just as much herd animals as the 'normal'
> people they look down upon.
>
> I've always been too strange for the normals and too square for the
> 'independents'. I used to think it was a bad thing not to belong. Now
> I've grown a bit older I realise it's a good thing actually.
>
"Everybody needs somebody that they can look down on
Who they can feel better than any time they please
Someone doing something dirty decent folks can frown on
You ain't got nobody else well help yourself to me"
Zebee
Lawns 'R' Us
Who?
Peter Corlett
[...]
> I remember when we moved out one house we were in, after being there for
> about 2 years and noticing how the walls behind the posters, etc. were
> actually pale blue and not dark yellow like the rest of the room.
I was born in the 1970s, where walls were actually intentionally painted a
disgusting orange or brown. My mother and father sinking several packs of
smokes a day wouldn't have helped. (They died at 62 and 42 respectively from
conditions either directly caused or exacerbated by smoking.)
> $deity only knows what it did to my developing lungs.
If my lungs are any guide, knackered them. My lung capacity is more than
adequate for the sedentary lifestyle I currently lead, but not really up to
strenuous exercise. It's likely to be my downfall in my declining years.
David Cameron Staples
> David Cameron Staples <sta...@cs.mu.oz.au.spam> wrote in
> <4a855c6b$0$1779$afc3...@news.optusnet.com.au>:
>> On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:06:21 +0200, Maarten Wiltink wrote:
>>> "Gallian" <gal...@linuxmail.org> wrote in message
>>> news:86prayd...@gareth.avalon.lan...
>>>> Somehow I feel like I've been born a century out of date.
>>> You're asking for it. No Red Bull for you anymore, and please turn
>>> over that computer and start writing correspondence longhand again.
>>> With a dip pen.
>>
>> I'm in the SCA. I write long legal documents in elaborate hands *for
>> fun*.
>
> In what language? You may find
Mostly English, varying in style between Bacon and de Worde, so that the
recipients have a hope of understanding. But I've also done stuff in
Latin, Irish, and a sample in Greek.
> <http://mikea.ath.cx/credentials/DSC00286.JPG> and other files in that
> directory to be interesting.
Shiny!
--
DCS@home
Greg Andrews
>
>I've been reading this thread with interest and I've only just
>clicked... That using electric shavers seems to be the default in the
>US.
>
I would say it's widespread rather than the default.
>
>I don't know that many men who use them here. Blade shaving various
>is the usual way to go.
>
>Most use the triple whatsits, but some people are going back to the
>old style single blade safety razor (so not as far back as a
>straight..) although those who do say you have to be careful with
>angle or you cut yourself to pieces.
>
After following a dual-blade-vs-triple-blade thread here and in my
ISP's local groups, I don't think the number of blades in a safety
razor has anything to do with the quality of the shave. I'm pretty
sure it's that when the consumer gives in to the advertising blitz
and tests a new razor, he/she is comparing new blades to old blades.
Naturally the razor being tested seems to work better.
Or maybe the razor company installs better blades in the new razor
than in the refill cartridges.
-Greg
--
::::::::::::::: Greg Andrews :::::: ge...@panix.com :::::::::::::::
Microsoft announced that its next operating system will be made for
touch-screen applications. It's about time. Users of Microsoft operating
systems have been pointing one particular finger at the screen for years.
John F. Eldredge
> Gallian wrote:
>>OK, I definitely gone completely weird. I already: 1. Smoke a pipe.
>>2. Enjoy fine spirits like Armagnac, Calvados and Single Malt Scotch.
>
> You are me.
>
>>Now I've added shaving with a straight razor.
>
> Except that I don't bother with the shaving part at all.
I resemble the stereotypical Unix programmer (bald on top, grey beard,
suspenders). The colleague on one side of me is about the same age, but
lacks the beard and suspenders. The colleague on the other side of me is
22. All three of us spend most of our days working with C, with the
occasional bit of Perl or shell scripting.
--
John F. Eldredge -- jo...@jfeldredge.com
"Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better
than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria
Garrett Wollman
Alex Elsayed <etern...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Hm, I'll have to try that. Unfortunately, that will require purchasing such
>a device, as my sinks and shower have insufficient pressure to be capable of
>such things. (My shower being more the kind that throws gobs of water in a
>rough stream, rather than needles.)
I am planning on updating the bathroom in my condo some time soon. It
was last seriously updated in 1958, which coincidentally is also the
year the condo was built.
Accomplishing this task will require ripping absolutely everything out
of the room -- sink, toilet, floor tile, wallboard, window,
everything.
With two exceptions: the tub and the showerhead. And I'm wavering a
bit on the tub.
I entirely sympathize with the need to conserve water (even in places
like this with 400-billion-gallon reservoirs[1] five hundred feet
uphill[2]), but a decent shower is not one of the compromises I'm
willing to make. I will gladly install a new low-flow toilet, but you
can take my showerhead away when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.
-GAWollman
[1] Actually 412 billion gallons, official capacity. It's been so wet
this year that the Quabbin is actually[3] 2.5 billion gallons "over"
capacity; at current demand that's about ten whole days worth of
withdrawals (and it hasn't stopped raining for that long in months).
[2] Actually, the Quabbin is a little less than 500 feet uphill. The
high point of the water system is about half way down the Quabbin
Aqueduct to Wachusett Reservoir. A clever siphon system called the
Ware River Diversion allows water to be sucked out of the Quabbin,
uphill to the Ware River, and then back downhill to Wachusett,
generating hydro power at the outlet. The whole public water system
is gravity-powered until it enters the town's local distribution
system. The Chicopee Valley system gets water directly from the
Quabbin.
[3] For values of "actually" meaning "last April", since they haven't
bothered to release any more recent numbers.
--
Garrett A. Wollman | What intellectual phenomenon can be older, or more oft
wol...@bimajority.org| repeated, than the story of a large research program
Opinions not shared by| that impaled itself upon a false central assumption
my employers. | accepted by all practitioners? - S.J. Gould, 1993
Zebee Johnstone
John F. Eldredge <jo...@jfeldredge.com> wrote:
>
> I resemble the stereotypical Unix programmer (bald on top, grey beard,
> suspenders). The colleague on one side of me is about the same age, but
> lacks the beard and suspenders. The colleague on the other side of me is
> 22. All three of us spend most of our days working with C, with the
> occasional bit of Perl or shell scripting.
Heh.. reminds me of a running joke on aus.bicycle with me complaining
that just cos I didn't have a beard they seemed to think I couldn't be
a recumbent rider.
Instituting that joke did lead to less upright bigotry which is
something.
Zebee
Lionel
> On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:07:35 +0000 (UTC), I posted this and added nothing
> original. That was stupid. I only plead being distracted by the luserlet as a
> mitigating factor.
>> On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:58:29 +0100, Jim wrote:
>>> On 2009-08-14, Gallian <gal...@linuxmail.org> wrote:
>>>> OK, I definitely gone completely weird. I already:
>>>>
>>>> 1. Smoke a pipe.
>>>> 2. Enjoy fine spirits like Armagnac, Calvados and Single Malt Scotch.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Jim
>>
>
>
I think your keyboard's B0rken.
--
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. | ,. w , "Some people are alive only because
\|/ \|/ it is illegal to kill them." Perna condita delenda est
---^----^---------------------------------------------------------------
Lionel
> After all, stuff gets to be "classic" for a reason. (On the other hand,
> while people may be nostalgic about things like carburators, I don't
> think anyone that actually makes a living repairing cars really MINDS
> that pretty much all vehicles come with computer-controlled fuel
> injectors instead, just like we don't mind not having to fuss with
> open-reel tape storage on a regular basis.)
Bah. Open reel tape storage isn't /that/ much of a hassle.
Lionel
> In <slrnh8anbq....@abyss.ninehells.com>, on 08/14/2009
> at 12:55 PM, "Peter H. Coffin" <hel...@ninehells.com> said:
>
>> just like we don't mind not having to fuss with
>> open-reel tape storage on a regular basis.)
>
>
> Coat? It's on the 355.
*cough* *splutter*
Don't get me started...
Lionel
> Robert Uhl <eadm...@NOSPAMgmail.com> writes:
>
>> Gallian <gal...@linuxmail.org> writes:
>>
>>> OK, I definitely gone completely weird. I already:
>>>
>>> 1. Smoke a pipe.
>>> 2. Enjoy fine spirits like Armagnac, Calvados and Single Malt Scotch.
>>>
>>> Now I've added shaving with a straight razor.
>>>
>>> Somehow I feel like I've been born a century out of date.
>>
>> Incidentally, what's your favourite tobacco? Right now I think I'm
>> kinda partial to Frog Morton on the Town...
>
> I tend to go for slightly aromatic English-style mixtures. Currently on
> a heavy binge of Peterson's University Flake.
I, OTOH, smoke roll-yer-owns. My favourite tobacco is Champion Ruby. I
have no idea whether one can purchase it outside Oz.
Howard S Shubs
Gallian <gal...@linuxmail.org> wrote:
> Yeah, but that's learning. Once you get the hang of it, it should get
> faster. Although I am not planning to ever hurry it beyond 15 minutes,
> but I was a slow shave with a safety razor as well, so that's just me.
Only way to find out is to try it, I suppose.
--
Don't bother with piddly crap like "gun control".
Life is 100% fatal. Ban it.
Howard S Shubs
Zebee Johnstone <zeb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been reading this thread with interest and I've only just
> clicked... That using electric shavers seems to be the default in the
> US.
I'm in the US. I've tried an electric and really didn't like it at all.
That's why I'm open to these other things.
Jim
> >>>> OK, I definitely gone completely weird. I already:
> >>>>
> >>>> 1. Smoke a pipe.
> >>>> 2. Enjoy fine spirits like Armagnac, Calvados and Single Malt Scotch.
> >>>>
> >>>> Now I've added shaving with a straight razor.
> >>>>
> >>>> Somehow I feel like I've been born a century out of date.
> >>> Culture.
> >
> >
> I think your keyboard's B0rken.
...press F1 to continue...
Jim
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Matt Palmer
> Zebee Johnstone wrote:
>
>>Heh.. reminds me of a running joke on aus.bicycle with me complaining
>>that just cos I didn't have a beard they seemed to think I couldn't be
>>a recumbent rider.
>
Well, he did say "Jehovah".
- Matt
mikea
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SteveD
wrote:
>In article <slrnh8bm4d...@gmail.com>,
> Zebee Johnstone <zeb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I've been reading this thread with interest and I've only just
>> clicked... That using electric shavers seems to be the default in the
>> US.
>
>I'm in the US. I've tried an electric and really didn't like it at all.
>That's why I'm open to these other things.
I use an electric in .au... but it's a US import with assorted bells and
whistles (underwater operation etc). Never really had a complaint with it,
although I suppose I should get a new set of consumable parts for it one
of these years.
-SteveD
Marc Haber
>On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:43:42 +0000, Roger Burton West wrote:
>> London, Plymouth or Hendricks?
>
>Being Type II,
Diabetes or what?
Greetings
Marc, with a diabetic cat (280 mg/dl just five minutes ago)
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Jed Davis
> I've been reading this thread with interest and I've only just
> clicked... That using electric shavers seems to be the default in the
> US.
>
> I don't know that many men who use them here. Blade shaving various
> is the usual way to go.
Like someone else said, not the default, but pretty common. I started
out with a goo-and-bloodletting routine that worked well enough for me
aside from the bloodletting and having to deal with the goo, but I
switched to a shaver some years ago and haven't really looked back.
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Jed Davis
> See elsethread. Apparently alcoholic drinks are meant for one thing
> only: get plastered, according the masses.
You say that like it's a *bad* thing. Also, I fail to believe that
cheap nasty beer that tastes like something died in it can even come
close to inexpensive liquor on any meaningful efficiency-of-plastering
metric.
TimC
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
> In article <86prayd...@gareth.avalon.lan>,
> Gallian <gal...@linuxmail.org> wrote:
>>OK, I definitely gone completely weird. I already:
>>
>>1. Smoke a pipe.
>
>
> My dad smoked a pipe. Maybe still does, I've no idea.
>
> He used to rub his own tobacco - if you could call it that. It was more
> like a block of tar.
Cutting out the middlemen I see. All that nasty nicotine and flavours
and stuff.
> He smoked stuff called "Thick Black" (I kid you not)
Mmmmm, Lagavulin.
If my posts over the past half hour haven't been coherent, you know
why.
I know I shouldn't post to UNSENET but I've got a week to catch up on.
--
TimC
> cat ~/.signature
Passing cosmic ray (core dumped)
TimC
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
But that's only because you're a top bloke.
--
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(Linus Torvalds, on gotos in kernel/sched.c)
TimC
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
>> "Gallian" <gal...@linuxmail.org> wrote in message
>> news:86prayd...@gareth.avalon.lan...
>> that computer and start writing correspondence longhand again. With a
>> dip pen.
>
> I'm in the SCA. I write long legal documents in elaborate hands *for fun*.
No one said you had to be normal to be successfully weird.
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TimC
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
> was last seriously updated in 1958, which coincidentally is also the
> year the condo was built.
>
> Accomplishing this task will require ripping absolutely everything out
> of the room -- sink, toilet, floor tile, wallboard, window,
> everything.
>
> With two exceptions: the tub and the showerhead. And I'm wavering a
> bit on the tub.
The ex-univerity had been replacing all of the toilets and changerooms
in the buildings I had been using, but I thought it rather odd that
they failed to notice and replace one particular shower. The shower
head was 20cm or so in diameter, with a flow rate that would be best
measured in quite a few tens of litres per minute. No, it wasn't a
chemical burns treatment shower.
> I entirely sympathize with the need to conserve water (even in places
> like this with 400-billion-gallon reservoirs[1] five hundred feet
> uphill[2]), but a decent shower is not one of the compromises I'm
> willing to make. I will gladly install a new low-flow toilet, but you
> can take my showerhead away when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.
I have a problem with getting out of the shower. A similar problem
that I have with getting out of bed. Except for if the doonas have
fallen off or the hot water has run out. Or I can't afford to indulge
in the former in the morning because I indulged in the latter, and now
I'm running late for the bus. D'oh.
> [1] Actually 412 billion gallons, official capacity. It's been so wet
> this year that the Quabbin is actually[3] 2.5 billion gallons "over"
> capacity; at current demand that's about ten whole days worth of
> withdrawals (and it hasn't stopped raining for that long in months).
My point of reference is Melbourne, even though I haven't lived there
in 3 years.
They've stopped drawing the capacity graphs with a range beyond 45%
now:
http://www.melbournewater.com.au/content/water_storages/water_report/water_report.asp
I guess it became too depressing looking at a 5% drop per year over
the past decade.
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intervals to make them remember that There Has To Be A Better Way.
TimC
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
>> I explained that I was building a problem light for my wall at work,
>> which would come on automatically whenever there was a problem which
>> needs fixing[1]
>
> Uh, got any plans or diagrams, sort of fing?
__________ _______
| | | | / |
| |nagios| | -----> | light |
L_L______|_| \_______|
>> [1] a fairly simple task to achieve really, just leave out the "off" switch
>
> Ah.
_______ __________ _______
/ / | | | | / |
| Fail | ---> | |nagios| | -----> | light |
\______\ L_L______|_| \_______|
Precisely.
--
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You can't tuna fish, but you can put tuna on a piano.
TimC
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
>> being either old _or_ new.
Weren't *cough spit* Vaxen, I mean, *hack spit cough splutter*
Slowaris boxen the pinnacle of computing?
> After all, stuff gets to be "classic" for a reason. (On the other hand,
> while people may be nostalgic about things like carburators,
Nostalgic? Sure, I don't mind mine, but the choke cable is a bit
sensitive (give it a light touch and all of a sudden the revs drop
from 5000rpm to 0), and it's a right pain starting the EU emissions
compliant bike when it's been up at TP=5degC, 850hPa for a week
without having been started. I almost had to make use of the fact
that such conditions naturally occur at the tops of hills and not
usually at the bottoms of local minima of gravitational potential
fields (try jump starting a bike with fancy ECU stuff though).
--
TimC
Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little
Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
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Joe Zeff
> Joe Zeff <the.guy.with....@lasfs.info> wrote:
>>On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:43:42 +0000, Roger Burton West wrote:
>>> London, Plymouth or Hendricks?
>>
>>Being Type II,
>
> Diabetes or what?
>
Yes, diabetes.
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John F. Eldredge
> On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 14:47:24 +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
>
>> Joe Zeff <the.guy.with....@lasfs.info> wrote:
>>>On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:43:42 +0000, Roger Burton West wrote:
>>>> London, Plymouth or Hendricks?
>>>
>>>Being Type II,
>>
>> Diabetes or what?
>>
>>
> Yes, diabetes.
Ditto with me. I like the occasional serving of wine or beer, but
alcohol does weird things to blood sugar, not to mention interacting with
medications. So, I limit myself to one serving or so per month.
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John F. Eldredge
> On 2009-08-15, Garrett Wollman (aka Bruce)
> was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
>> I am planning on updating the bathroom in my condo some time soon. It
>> was last seriously updated in 1958, which coincidentally is also the
>> year the condo was built.
>>
>> Accomplishing this task will require ripping absolutely everything out
>> of the room -- sink, toilet, floor tile, wallboard, window, everything.
>>
>> With two exceptions: the tub and the showerhead. And I'm wavering a
>> bit on the tub.
>
> The ex-univerity had been replacing all of the toilets and changerooms
> in the buildings I had been using, but I thought it rather odd that they
> failed to notice and replace one particular shower. The shower head was
> 20cm or so in diameter, with a flow rate that would be best measured in
> quite a few tens of litres per minute. No, it wasn't a chemical burns
> treatment shower.
This sounds like the shower in Terry Pratchett's novel _Hogfather_. Just
in case your shower was designed by Bloody Stupid Johnson, beware of any
knobs labeled "Old Faithful".
Zebee Johnstone
Roger Burton West <roger+a...@nospam.firedrake.org> wrote:
> Garrett Wollman wrote:
>
>>I will gladly install a new low-flow toilet,
>
> half-sized flushes to carry away what could have been moved by one
> full-size.
I solve the problem by changing the ballcock height in my old loo.
The flush now takes somewhere between 1/2 and 2/3 of the amount of
water it used to. Didn't take too long to tune the water amount.
Zebee
Shmuel Metz
at 03:55 PM, Gallian <gal...@linuxmail.org> said:
>A pipe? It's a slight increase in risk. It's not cigarettes.
Lower risk of lung cancer, higher risk of oral cancer. I'll pass, TYVM.
>See elsethread. Apparently alcoholic drinks are meant for one thing
>only: get plastered, according the masses.
I'm not Catholic; I don't do masses.
>They appear to be the same thing, unfortunately.
Appearances are deceiving.
>But then again, conformism is highly regarded here.
As opposed to everybody being nonconforming in exactly the same way?
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Howard S Shubs
Roger Burton West <roger+a...@nospam.firedrake.org> wrote:
> 'Cos it makes so much more sense to spend five minutes doing three
> half-sized flushes to carry away what could have been moved by one
> full-size.
That just means you haven't seen a properly designed low flow toilet yet.
David Gersic
> On 2009-08-14, Peter H. Coffin (aka Bruce)
> was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
>> On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:06:21 +0200, Maarten Wiltink wrote:
>>> We're living in the future. Wallow in it. Don't spurn good things for
>>> being either old _or_ new.
>
> Weren't *cough spit* Vaxen, I mean, *hack spit cough splutter*
> Slowaris boxen the pinnacle of computing?
Yes. It's been all down hill ever since.
Joe Zeff
> I'm not Catholic; I don't do masses.
Neither am I, but there's wine for Kiddush and at the Seder every year.
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Complaining about the wait times doesn't make them shorter.
David Cameron Staples
> On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 22:33:19 -0400, Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz wrote:
>
>> I'm not Catholic; I don't do masses.
>
> Neither am I, but there's wine for Kiddush and at the Seder every year.
Hell, IME Kosher wine could put someone with perfectly healthy insulin
production into a diabetic coma. And it tastes like cough syrup.
--
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Joe Zeff
> Hell, IME Kosher wine could put someone with perfectly healthy insulin
> production into a diabetic coma. And it tastes like cough syrup.
Kosher wine doesn't have to be sweet, you know. I have no idea why none
of the popular brands are dry. I can guess, though, why Passover wine is
normally sweet: it represents the sweetness of freedom.
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Peter Corlett
> I understand that Ingvar, formerly of this parish, once wrote a program to
> scrape the Swedish Alcohol Monopoly web site and work out which thing
> would get you the maximum amount of alcohol per kroner.
Serious dipsos can size up the window of the local pissmongers and do that
through an alcoholic haze without the aid of a computer. The current winners
would appear to be High Commissioner and White Star. If you've never heard
of those brands, consider yourself very lucky.
On that general note, have you seen http://trampjuice.tk/ yet?
Maarten Wiltink
news:ithil6-...@rubberchicken.nocrap...
> On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 21:35:20 +0000 (UTC), Zebee Johnstone wrote:
>> I've been reading this thread with interest and I've only just
>> clicked... That using electric shavers seems to be the default
>> in the US.
>
> Dunno about the US, but over here in Yurp it's at least a fairly
> normal thing. I wouldn't know about default...
Judgeing from advertising, both electric and (safety) blades are
'normal'.
> For me, it was. My dad had a philishave, so that's what you use
> first and then stick with if you can't be much bothered with
> shaving in the first place.
My dad had a Braun, but after the borrowing got too frequent, my
mom got both my twin brother and me a Philishave for our sixteenth
birthday.
That was when I found out that I'm completely unable to shave with
a Philishave. And now we both have beards.
Tebrgwrf,
Maarten Wiltink
Maarten Wiltink
news:aimil6-...@mikea.ath.cx...
[...]
> You need to remind them of how Sir Trudy got facial hair.
One too many facelifts?
Tebrgwrf,
Maarten Wiltink
Maarten Wiltink
news:20090816081354....@firedrake.org...
> Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz wrote:
>> at 03:55 PM, Gallian <gal...@linuxmail.org> said:
>>> A pipe? It's a slight increase in risk. It's not cigarettes.
>> Lower risk of lung cancer, higher risk of oral cancer.
>
> Hm, not compared with factory-made cigarettes AFAICT. (Most smoking
> studies lump in all cigarettes together, and since the hand-rolled are
> much less noxious than the factory-made ...
Clearly Zware Shag hasn't made it to your parts.
Tebrgwrf,
Maarten Wiltink