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BBC website today: "Telescopes detect 'biggest explosion since Big Bang'". If the BBC calls the BB an "explosion" we've got our work cut out here!
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Lesson learned, for the umpteenth time: Buy cheap, pay twice.
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@Sensei I looked at that series and would have got it if I went for inkjet but felt that this technology doesn't stand idle very well and their cost/page appears not as good as laser. The Lexmark I ordered does double sided printing.
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@StringJunky Nice feature to have these days is ability to receive data through WiFi and Bluetooth, and print directly from SD/SDHC. Worth taking it into consideration during ordering of new printer. They will allow printing directly from digital camera, smartphone or tablet, without having to transfer files back and forth to the computer.
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A copper tried to arrest me by jumping on me and I quickly rolled out the way...onto the bedroom floor... ouch! I thought your body was supposed to be paralysed when you are sleep?
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I know for a fact that I do not remember dreaming much usually - when I stop smoking for a few days (yea, OK Prometheus, you got me there - I think you know what) I definitely start dreaming a lot more vividly. Maybe I just remember it more, but I don't think so - I think I dream more lucidly without smoke.
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REM is how our voracious brain supply its metabolic needs during sleep. Lack of REM deprives our brain of something it needs during sleep that it can't restore during our physically active waking hours. This is likely because of the energy our brain devotes to our physical activities. Suppressing REM could be fatal.
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On intelligence: You can be smart and poor, and no one will likely notice. But dumb and beautiful? People will notice. You can even get famous like that.
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Just noticed that both negative and positive rep given is shown now in a post.
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i noticed you get desktop notifications, if you are not on the same tab as the forum, and a sound.
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Just drowned my analogue hearing aid in my coffee. Guess I'm going to have to move into the 21st century and live with my digital one which has been in its box for the last few years. I've been assured this is what things really sound like but it's so alien. Got no choice now but there's far too much information coming at me right now.
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Left it a couple of days and it works now. I think I was lucky that there was no milk in the coffee and no sugar because i'd run out. I will note though that the digital experience wasn't so bad this time. There's a definite slight hiss in my analogue aid which I missed. The silence of digital was a bit unnerving at first. The sound difference is like the difference between a valve amp and a tranny. I've got used to the noise and expect it.
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I saw this thought today. It touched me: You can normally tell the true character of someone, by how they treat those who can do nothing for them.
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Lesson for 2016: Never underestimate an electorate's capacity for collective stupidity.
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Returned my unused Zyban and signed off from my smoking adviser today. Job done, hopefully..
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thanks guys. Yrs, I know, Koti. My brother gave up about 25 years ago and would till ask to roll a cig for me; I told him"No". I'll always be able to smoke but I gave up drugs 15 years ago and theygave mealot more pleasure but I still don't touch them. I've always wanted to be totally drug-free and this it. As good as a drug, if not better tohave taken complete control over myself.
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Returned my unused Zyban today and signed off from my smoking adviser today. Job done, hopefully..
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Think I'm free of cigarettes now. Can't see myself smoking in the foreseeable future. Just got to see if I feel the same when the Zyban stops.
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I'm SAD.
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I need a fag.
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These 18650 lithium ion batteries do like to arc at every opportunity...it's quite worrying
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Big fail on the saturated fat reduction exercise so far. Today: Chicken pasty, sausage roll, cheese on toast and chocolate.
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It's hard this healthy eating lark. Everything I eat is killing me. Saturated fat is everywhere.
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No. Its just that, having got rid of Hep C, I'm using the very positive emotional momentum gained from that to rid myself of two unhealthy aspects of my life; sugar and smoking. The experience from the treatment, which was pretty horrible, makes giving up those two things less of a challenge; that's my theory! Unfortunately, the treatment has left me with high cholesterol, hence my drive against the wrong fats and other contributory factors.
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Thank you for sharing that with me mate. And good luck to you, of course. I am pretty much in the same cholesterol boat. However, I don't study my diet with too much scrutiny. Surely exercise and lots of it provide a way out. Eat well and vary it. Take everything you enjoy in small doses. I don't always follow my own advice but I am eating more salad as you suggested.
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Never thought I'd use skimmed milk and analyse the fat types in my diet; how have I lived this long?!
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Today is the beginning of the rest of my life without cigs
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Pleased to hear that. After a long period I felt comfortable lighting someone else's cigarette for them (if their hands were not free for example)
Even so ,I have never thought of myself (since I quit) as a non-smoker.I think we need all the identities we can gather around us.
I still think old Bogie looks cool and wasn't Marlene Dietrich cut from the same cloth?
Sadly Bogie suffered for his vice and we are all the poorer for that (even though somethin...
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Cut off by the text guillotine ..... will get us all ,smoking related or not.....
http://theweek.com/articles/444555/lauren-bacalls-remarkably-honest-account-humphrey-bogarts-death
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Start Zyban tomorrow and will cease smoking in two weeks.if not before. If I get mardy, you know why.
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I'm six days on 1 Zyban a day now and from tomorrow will be on 2 a day. I'm still smoking normally, maybe a bit less. I'm slowly educating my mind into accepting that I can sit without needing to smoke. I tell myself I'm going to be so much better and healthier without it. I will be having my first session with my chemist's stop smoking advisor on Tuesday. Full cessation is planned for next Monday; the Zyban should be at full effect by then. No negatives from the drug so f...
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It's a shame ones ears doesn't keep the volume high when listening to music loud