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Oct 27, 2018 - 9:19 AM
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Graham Watt
(Member)
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What was that John Wayne line from McClintock!: "The government never gave anyone anything!" 
Hope your recent medical issues have been resolved, Graham. As those in the grow say, "Beard on!"
Thanks - but "medical issues"? I don't think I ever paraded them here. But since you mentioned it, I have about 25 "conditions" which need fairly constant monitoring. I don't care. Enjoy life while you can, because you only have one, and then that's it. Don't let anyone bullshit you into believing otherwise.
And that brings me nicely around to my best friend. We've been pals since schooldays, so that's going back half a century. Last time I saw him he was amazed at the amount of stuff I get on doctors' orders. He says it's all a conspiracy by pharmaceutical companies to make money. They invent diseases, then sell you the cures. I think he might be right actually, but my health issues are real to me. It's not like I'm imagining the symptoms. Some of them are even visible. Anyway, back to my old buddy. He's given up his job and is going to spend the rest of his life with his wife, both travelling around the world, maybe a year in one country, another year in another. Lucky buggers don't even have to work for a living. Anyway, this year he's in Spain, and in order to get his papers checked the authorities asked him for a copy of his medical record. They didn't believe him when he told them that he doesn't have a medical record, because he's never been to see a doctor since the day he was born. So he thinks that my ailments are caused by going to the doctors. I love my buddy.
And, that great friend of mine just happens to sport the most wondrously flowing beard.
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As a "sensitive New Ager" - with sensitive skin - I realize that after several years of trying to cultivate a garden hedge on my facial fizzog, I may have been going about the pruning of it in an incorrect manner. I have been using razor blades for every little nick or arm-swooping slash, with garden shears for the tougher straggly bits that hang down below an "acceptable" chin/neck level. I never even thought about lawnmowers. If I lie on the ground and have my wife (for example) run over my head pushing/driving a lawnmower, would the resulting lacerations be lesser than those I receive from trying to close-shave my cheeks with a disposable Bic ballpoint pen-cum-lighter?
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No razor on spanish holiday so i have suitably gone clint stubble after visit to almeria western town.
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