Chopper Edoff

95% sodium chloride is the correct ratio for the body, that's exactly why comsuming only more of sodium chloride (table salt) is so bad for you, it upsets the salt balance in your body. I think that the original science that said "salt is bad for you" has been pretty much discredited nowadays. I agree with you that a lot of science has an agenda behind it, that's why I've learnt to take it with a pinch of salt! If you are old enough, you will remember when it was common for doctors waiting rooms to have free cigarettes to help with patients stress while waiting - things change, advice isn't always permanent. All I know is this from personal experience: don't buy food - buy ingredients and make your own don't eat anything your grandmother wouldn't recognise don't eat processed food (full of bad salt and sugars to add flavour) eat loads of butter, bacon and fats, it fills you up but avoid bread pasta carbs Eat green and coloured plants As all good cooks will tell you, use lots of good salt Ten years ago I changed over my diet and went from a fat bastard blaming everyone else, to losing 7 stone and have spent the last 8 years back with a 34 inch waist that I had when I was 20, loads of energy, wake up with morning wood everyday. It's all the proof I need. [ame] [/ame]

There's no such thing as a dangerous amount of Himalaya salt if you have functional liver/kidneys, any excess just gets excreted. A curious thing to note is that many liver problems are caused by .......drum roll....lack of real salt! Real salt has always been precious, Roman soldiers were paid in salt, it's where the word salary comes from - Salarium The same does not hold true with Sodium chloride (table salt), that stuff will screw you up which is why you are advised to try and keep a low limit. Table salt is just another of the long list of non natural industrial products that ruins the reputaion of normally much better natural products. I've been into science all my life, I used to believe in the purity of science but as I've aged, I've learnt that science just pimps itself out for a paycheck the same as everyone else - where's my flying car that they promised me as a kid ffs!? Science has it's priesthood and this is why breakthroughs come from outsiders - like Einstien etc. I tend to go natural and skip the industrial science route nowadays, fancy some Thalidomide anyone, the guys in the white lab coats said it's great. Probably the biggest mass murderer in the 20th century was a guy you've never heard of, not Hitler, not Stalin, not Mao but a chemical engineer called Thomas Midgley Jr who worked for the Dupont chemical company. He invented lead additives for petrol to stop knocking and boost octane ratings and Freon which is CFCs in fridges/air con. Both these inventions have killed millions over the years with lead poioning and ozone cancers etc and both have been removed nowadays. Can anyone, hand on heart say that the modern system is working? You eat the modern processed foods, you eat the low fat and carbo heavy shite (that's full of fake sugars) the doctors say is good for you, it makes you fat and ill and then medicine fills you up with nasty crap like steroids that bloats you up even more and leads to obesity epidemics and "we wonder why the NHS is at breaking point" threads. As with finance, follow the money, there's an lot of money being made from keeping people unhealthy. Sorry to waffle but life is so full of wonderful stuff......

Ok, the way it works is thus. The Himalaya rock salts were originally a sea bed 250 million years ago. If you believe in evolution and that we evolved from the sea, we are mostly water anyway, you also find that of the 96 elements in our bodies, 94 of them are found in Himalaya sea salts, in exactly the same proportion as are in our bodies, lending creedence to evolutionary theory. I prefer this type of salt over sea salts because sea salts have picked up all the trash from nuclear testing and pollution etc which is not in rock salts - plus it tastes awesome! Modern table salt has added iodine and anti caking agents and is made from gasoline and chemistry. Modern food has very little goodness in it because of the intensive nature of it, modern farming is the conversion of oil into calories and analysis shows trace minerals are severley lacking. Some expedition to the antarctic brought back a 100 year old can of tinned beef had had been left there and compared it to a modern tin, the modern corned beef lacked so much in minerals etc that it was a joke. In modern agriculture, the soil is just a growing medium, not a source of nutrients and minerals and this is shown in the lack of in the final product. If you keep beef animals you hang up salt licks to try add add vital minerals back into the diet, they are not single salt licks. Personally I buy 25kg bags of Himalaya rock salt at a time, eats loads myself and give away loads to other people, you never go back to eating that white table poison afterwards.

"there's nothing more expensive than cheap food" Why all the tough love against the KFC fatties? The correct way to look at the lithely challenged is to consider them a resource. Fat is a valuable energy source and you can run a Hummer for ages on one. The energy is cheap to harvest (it's not like they can run fast), onshore and you don't have to bomb people the other side of the world to get your hands on it. Apparently it's the skinny old people who live forever collecting pensions that are the real cost, fatties at least dirt nap early after racking up huge profits for the drug corporations. PS salt is very good for you, just not the white chemical stuff, use instead great tasting Himalaya salts, full of trace elements (normally missing in modern foods) and use as much as you like., yummm.

Sorry no Chopper Edoff - founder and only member of the North Yorks non opinionated bee keepers association

"Profanity is the linguistic crutch of inarticulate motherf*ckers"

Yeah but a crewcab flatbed pulls all the hot chicks............

Condoms! Don't forget 'em and don't forget to use them - got my first ever STD from a Christchurch slapper! "why does it hurt when I pee ......" Frank Zappa

Woodland is the best way to park spare cash imho. Not only is it good for your head but the overheads are nil compared to property which is taxed via council tax etc etc etc - go for it! Curiously, since I bought my woods, the price has risen much higher than houses locally, there seems to be a strong demand for amenity woodland.

Chuck in a bit of some old tyre plus a dash of diesel - that should help it along

So that's what you are really all about, protectionism, I guessed as much. The thing you won't realise, until too late, is that once you get your desired laws you will be signing your own slow demise. Make laws to protect your industry which drives up costs. It never ends though, people who don't do the work then work at making more laws in the industry that drive up costs even more. Large corporations then move in as the small competitors have been removed and do very effective lobbying for even more restrictions on trading until there is no longer any little guy left. This has happened so often in so many industries that I would have thought most people were aware by now how it works.

What happened to the old days, you know, mind your own business and live and let live? I think the original poster is a wanna be politician. "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies." - Groucho Marx How's the governments ban on drugs going? I think that they should win that first before they start banning anything else! Saw a T-shirt with "The Drugs are winning the War"

Sorry to hear about your loss but it really is time to move your security arrangements to reflect the current realities. Security 101 Hang Palestine flags around your perimeters To the left and right of your entryway ISIS flags need to be affixed. When approaching or leaving, always wear a Hezbollah T shirt. Apply some "I Love Iran" stickers to your van If you have a dog that wanders off a lot, rename it to Allah Benefits. You and your property is watched 24/7 by Special Branch, CIA, MI5, MI6, local bill and the drones overhead. If you have an accident in the woods, the gps and drone operators tracking you will know exactly where you are and your survival rate has increased markedly. Contact your insurance company and get an immediate 50% reduction after explaining your new precautions. Unlike religion, where you have to have faith that you are being watched over by someone in the sky, you know that you really are. You no longer have to lock anything up anymore, house, car etc and you become attractive to women. The smart lines of your lumbersexual clothing is no longer ruined by bunches of keys in your pockets.

If you fancy something non Amerikan and fancy a slow burner but keeps you hooked in, try The Fall. Two series of a psychological thriller starring Gillian Anderson (remember the X Files?) set in Belfast. Also, if you are interested in TV series, try this site epguides.com - Main Menu Page all TV series are arranged alphbetically with episode lists and if you click on the name of the series when opened, it links to imdb and user reviews with an overall rating. Very useful for getting an idea of if something is dross or not True Detective is most excellent if you get the chance.......

"I think you'll find that everything you've ever done is overrated and rubbish and you're going to die in a piss-filled ditch." (to be directed at techno narcissists as they are masterbating their electronic egos through their smartphones)

It's not £39.99 tho............................... add to cart and it becomes £54.59 add free del voucher and it's £47.99

I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private lives in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower. – Banksy (2006

Never buy a stupid dwarf - It's not big and it's not clever

300 years of industrialisation have left the northern hemisphere with a permanent high altitude smog so you will never see stars like you do in the southern hemisphere. I remember being amazed the first time I saw the skies in NZ.

Game of thrones - Bates Motel - True Detective - Fargo - Vikings - Ray Donovan Trailer Park Boys for a bit of comedy [ame] [/ame] Second for Six Feet Under, Dexter, Walking Dead

Just use a flexible liner, go for the heavy guage one (904) and pour in from the top vermiculite trying to keep the liner centred. The vermiculite insulates the liner thus keeping the flue gas temps up, causing a good draw and stops soot condensing out. The 904 flue liner has a 20 year g-tee and by using loose vermiculite makes replacemnet very easy. I prefer this method because it's cheap and imho better than other systems especially on old chimneys, I have seen damp ingress through solid flue systems in unused flues.

Hey Shavey, I'd also be interested in Dolmar prices etc if you could pm me please. Ive been doing some research and Dolmar are the rednecks favourite chainsaw apparently. Do you do customisations? I'd rather like to have a cb radio on mine with a 15' twig (aerial) and some suitable authentic stickers like "Hey cousin, you sure look pretty today" Also do you have the redneck safety wear, flip flops, shorts, torn T shirt for sale. I know it's a lot to ask but do you do lessons in starting the chainsaw, you know the hold the starter handle and throw the saw at your bare legs? cheers

Rubbish - my Marmak rocks!

I just issue the command to decant to one of my serfs, I've never spilt a drop (they may have though!) The first rule of management is learning how to delegate all the crappy jobs

The power lines cross clear fields to my boundary where there is a step down to 240v transformer on a pole. From the transormer there is a twisted pair of 240v 100amp cables that run on several more poles to the house through my woodland - it was this stretch that the contractor guys trimmed back. A surveyor rolled up one day, explained the situation, said it was free and that they left the wood behind - sorted! I'd been planning on doing it myself as there were some large ash trees arcing over the lines and I was just waiting for a power cut on a windy night! I think the power company is happy to do any type of preventative work because it is much cheaper than having to fix a failure. I'm guessing that the power company is responsible for the lines up to the customers meter. Give 'em a ring, it's not often you can get stuff done for free nowadays