F&M is convenient for weekend shopping, however, when the nearby shops are largely closed. I guess that's more of an issue for locals, though.

Did you ever try the summer drink called a Dog's Nose? A glass of cold beer into which you pour a shot of gin. Has quite an impact. You can do the same thing with Sake into a glass of beer. They're called "Bombs". Coarser Russians have always spiked their beer with vodka. "Vodka without beer is lik...

MSG is found ...in yeast extracts like Vegemite (1.4%) and Marmite (2.0%). Marmite is pretty much MSG Spread Product. 0.02 doesn't equate to "pretty much", surely? It's not the hyperbolic 80% that I threw out for style and flair, but your 100ml jar of marmite has 2ml of pure MSG. For such a tiny ja...

The warnings given about talc were initiated when talc was being contaminated with asbestos way back when if I remember. As recently as 1999, many brands of talcum powder were known to contain lead. Even many listed as "baby powder" seemed to have contained the stuff. Judging from http://www.leadpr...

drmoss_ca wrote:Did you intend that to be rude, as it certainly sounds that way?

Intentions, as the man once said, are the booby prize. And if it's intentions that you want, then you are most likely a booby. Please close the booby hatch behind you.

You are right, it does contain MSG, but it is naturally occurring. I thought you meant it was added. The naturally occurring stuff is the most voluminous. I think marmite and parmesan cheese are the two worst offenders. The point is that when you buy a jar of MSG (not that I ever have) it's basical...

rustyblade wrote:I thought it was loaded with Vitamin B?

Lots of foods specialize in particular vitamins. That's the whole reason we need to balance our diets. It can have a megadose of vitamin B mixed in and still be 90% mad cow prions.

Libel. There is no MSG in Marmite. The stuff is mostly beer faeces (that's to say, yeast sh*t). Um, how do you think they make MSG? http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:MSG MSG is found naturally in seaweed, in fermented soy products such as miso and soy sauce (1.0%), and especially in yeast extra...

Excllent! As a huge Infocom fan, I ended up writing and maintaining a portable interpreter that plays all of the old Infocom games (except for the two with graphics), mostly so I could play them on UNIX machines (it also worked on DOS, Windows, VMS, AmigaOS, BeOS, most UNIX platforms, and wherever ...

drmoss_ca wrote: I used to get my wife to bring back some Crabbies for me when she went to England to visit her parents.

Insert punchline here.

Rum and black is a girly drink, and marmite is something like 80% MSG. No amount of peppering your sentences with "dear boy" and "old bean" will change any of this.

Oh, good grief! They're right near where I work. I must have walked by them today when I was getting lunch!

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Ooh, Where is the London shop?

Thanks for the link, ichabod. I'm not particularly concerned about the closeness of the shave, but I'm more concerned with the ability to use the thing on myself. Too many clippers are made for a barber to use on his client, and the angles for solo use are too awkward. Still, that may be my product ...

I shower, using hair conditioner on my stubble to soften it. Then I get out and put proraso pre-shave on because I've found it helps protect my skin no matter what cream I use. I also find that it makes the management of the shaved dross in the sink easier. that, and the chilling is fun.

You clearly had nothing to lose.

(giant thumb)

Timpac wrote:Shave the head. If you're cutting it that short with a clipper every two weeks, just shave it every day or every other day.

See, a man of African descent can shave his head and look like a normal, functioning member of society. A white guy like me just looks like a giant thumb.

Or you could get one of these www.shaveeverywhere.com Er, what is that? All I see is a site telling me to install flash. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000EG8HLE/102-0558782-2648169?v=glance&n=3760901 from that site: Not for use above the neck that rules that thing out, whatever it was.

rustyblade wrote:Or you could get one of these www.shaveeverywhere.com

Er, what is that? All I see is a site telling me to install flash.