Brexit, for once some facts.

[flecc]

There's a very sneaky full stop at the end of nearly all your posts, which is why I din't mention the lack of full stop between quotation marks, but you could have also been making a point, so I was confused, and remained silent on the issue, and now you very much wish I had continued to do so, as do I.

All my posts have that additional full stop at the end. It's to make them stand out over the extra space at the bottom since they are clearly the most important posts being made in this forum.

Since that full stop is standard to every post I make, I can start with it and then fill in the text ahead of it, just like editing.
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[oldgroaner]

No it's none of the religious claptrap, just simple rational factual thought.
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A very over-rated activity, the human race hasn't got where it is today by using rational factual thought.
If we ever encounter an intelligent alien species our most likely reaction will be to see what they taste like with chips and gravy
On a theological note: one of the arguments against there being a god or gods is that it is extremely unlikely that he/she/it or them would employ fire and Brimstone, Locusts, plagues and famine as methods of correcting human bad behaviour.

That sort of thing doesn't impress the average voter.
It must be jolly hard to come up with something sufficiently dire to frighten a public who voted for both Brexit and our two main political parties

 

[oldgroaner]

All my posts have that additional full stop at the end. It's to make them stand out over the extra space at the bottom since they are clearly the most important posts being made in this forum.

Since that full stop is standard to every post I make, I can start with it and then fill in the text ahead of it, just like editing.
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You have my sympathy, I don't know how you cope with so many periods on a daily basis

 

[guerney]

All my posts have that additional full stop at the end. It's to make them stand out over the extra space at the bottom since they are clearly the most important posts being made in this forum.

Since that full stop is standard to every post I make, I can start with it and then fill in the text ahead of it, just like editing.
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Just as I suspected... The Full Stop Of Power

 

[oldgroaner]

My plantar fasciitis resolved when my dose of thyroid hormone reached adequacy.

I had to look that up, it sounded like some form of house plant

 

[Danidl]

That's very "Be Here Now", Buddhist (via "mindfulness" or Vipassana) or Zazen.

Death will never take me alive.

Or I will live forever , or die in the attempt

 

[oldgroaner]

There's a very sneaky full stop at the end of nearly all your posts, which is why I din't mention the lack of full stop between quotation marks, but you could have also been making a point, so I was confused, and remained silent on the issue, and now you very much wish I had continued to do so, as do I.

If you are confused, spare a thought for our most loyal supporters.
Secretly he only does this full stop "thingy" to confuse the boys and girls at Menwith Hill, who are the biggest source of clicks on this thread.
One day they will catch on that they don't need to wait for the code room to decrypt our posts for subversive messages, it's all just a subtle way of increasing our number of hits and Google ranking,

 

[oyster]

I had to look that up, it sounded like some form of house plant

I'd rather have almost any houseplant!

 

[GLJoe]

Leave campaign heavily targeted undecided voters... remember the dodgy Cambridge Analytica data harvesting aspect.
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"records that showed how, between June and August 2014, the profiles of more than 50 million Facebook users had been harvested. Most damning of all, he had a letter from Facebook’s own lawyers admitting that Cambridge Analytica had acquired the data illegitimately." https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump

I was recently recommended to check out the book 'Mindf*ck' by the aforementioned whistleblower, Christopher Wylie.
As it seems to be Brexit related, I was wondering if anyone here had read the book?
Any comments? worth getting ??

 

[guerney]

I do hope some Tories get named during their conference:

Pandora papers: biggest ever leak of offshore data exposes financial secrets of rich and powerful

Millions of documents reveal offshore deals and assets of more than 100 billionaires, 30 world leaders and 300 public officials

www.theguardian.com

 

[guerney]

I'd rather have almost any houseplant!

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[guerney]

I am aware of quite a number of people who found PF improved or totally resolved when their thyroid issues were properly addressed.

Yes - I take levothyroxine but some take liothyronine or a combination.

Hypothyroidism has many, many effects. And a lot are not properly recognised. For me, sleep was a problem. I'd fall asleep easily enough, then wake after half to two hours - and be unable to get back to sleep. I'd often see dawn and just get up.

I used to suffer from the feeling of dryness of my skin, especially my hands. Was a hand-cream addict! Now I rarely have any issues.

I also use supersoft diabetic insoles in my shoes.

Hmmm... I was pre-diabetic, and probably still am despite losing weight. Trouble is, I haven't been doing enough exercise - the ebike has actually made matters worse... I should have stuck to attempted jogging. On the bright side, I think my controller is dead - time to get wheezy slow shuffling, spluttering, coughing and spitting out lung butter (jogging). Maybe the test tube famine has eased enough now, for non-urgent blood tests. The upside of ebiking is that I have stronger legs, but I haven't increased my overall fitness - not as aerobic as using a non-ebike. But I have been lazy, assistance levels too high. I won't buy a controller straight away, getting back on the road sweating like a pig seems the more approriate plan. The battery is at 37.5V, so it'll keep for a few months.

How I discovered I had plantar faciitis in the first place, was after a jog - my first in nearly 30 years. In the snow. I'd have thought nothing of running 5 miles while ungratefully young, of course.

"Youth is wasted in the young."
- Douglas Adams

 

[guerney]

By then you'll be officially the "Has Bean" of this thread

Has bean, will falafel?

(Sorry)

 

[guerney]

The often element comes in with minor snack items such the odd piece of fruit or a few nuts etc.

Watch out! Nuts contain very high percentages of fat... I read somewhere that blood vessel walls stiffen in shock, when one consumes too much fat in one go.

 

[guerney]

I had to look that up, it sounded like some form of house plant

Plantar fasciitis - it sounded to me like Latin for "Landing on one's face"

 

[guerney]

For me, sleep was a problem. I'd fall asleep easily enough, then wake after half to two hours - and be unable to get back to sleep.

I used to suffer from the feeling of dryness of my skin, especially my hands. Was a hand-cream addict! Now I rarely have any issues.

Yep, I got two and a half hours and felt the irresistible urge to jump out of bed, so I did. I was hoping to avoid the whole medication whack-a-mole symptom quashing game.. take one drug, then you have to take another to treat side effects, then another for the new side effects, then another and another ad infinitum... I'll be yet another marionette to drug company whims, but we all are now.

 

[guerney]

If you are confused, spare a thought for our most loyal supporters.
Secretly he only does this full stop "thingy" to confuse the boys and girls at Menwith Hill, who are the biggest source of clicks on this thread.
One day they will catch on that they don't need to wait for the code room to decrypt our posts for subversive messages, it's all just a subtle way of increasing our number of hits and Google ranking,

I wonder if their playground really is composed of huge walls of screens depicting "The Grid", which is usually explained as a vast data mining operation looking for linked outliers - people or groups who look like trouble, to be flagged up to those boys and girls (just the very dodgy outliers), for a more detailed assessment, like it is on the telly, or at HMRC system headquarters for low level tax evasion detection?

 

[guerney]

This level of tax would balance the books:

Taxation in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Zlatan]

Hmmm... I was pre-diabetic, and probably still am despite losing weight. Trouble is, I haven't been doing enough exercise - the ebike has actually made matters worse... I should have stuck to attempted jogging. On the bright side, I think my controller is dead - time to get wheezy slow shuffling, spluttering, coughing and spitting out lung butter (jogging). Maybe the test tube famine has eased enough now, for non-urgent blood tests. The upside of ebiking is that I have stronger legs, but I haven't increased my overall fitness - not as aerobic as using a non-ebike. But I have been lazy, assistance levels too high. I won't buy a controller straight away, getting back on the road sweating like a pig seems the more approriate plan. The battery is at 37.5V, so it'll keep for a few months.

How I discovered I had plantar faciitis in the first place, was after a jog - my first in nearly 30 years. In the snow. I'd have thought nothing of running 5 miles while ungratefully young, of course.

"Youth is wasted in the young."
- Douglas Adams

I disagree re not getting anaerobic fitness on ebike.
Look on the body as a machine, a complicated one, but never the less a machine.
Mine is currently capable of producing around 140 watts(guess)... I can use that 140 Watts to jog, cycle, swim or whatever I want... pretty much indefinitely... Trouble is that 140 watt when running, cycling is hardly enough to get up hills, so I make it give 160 going up and on a bike almost nothing going down.
Now our bodies train much better at steady state out puts... Going into short term debt, coughing and spluttering actually is of hardly any benefit at all. Benefits to heart, lungs and muscles are achieved with sustained and probably minor rates over our max steady state out put..
On an ebike you can use your 140 watt out put combined with that of bike to avoid serious short term oxygen debt but sustain a beneficial output for a time long enough to achieve real gains. Going into short term oxygen debt will simply tell the machine... Stop. (especially so when weakened by illness)
It might feel to be beneficial to pant, cough and splutter, and it might help you think you are training but you aren't.
Get on your ebike, set an achievable constant out put, use the econtroller accordingly, ie more help on hills, less so elsewhere and cycle for at least one hour. (a heart rate monitor helps, ie train to a certain constant heart rate..., when not in AF I train to 140)
Jogging when unfit and going into short. term severe O2 debt with soaring heart rate is extremely dangerous and actually is of very little if any benefit.
All this from my heart surgeon..
Train to a raised but sustainable level and enjoy it. Ebike perfect tool.

 

[oyster]

??

Than suffer Plantar facsciitis.